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Manually Enroll Windows Device Into Autopilot

Assumptions

  1. You have a Windows 11 PC at the Out-Of-Box-Experience (OOBE)
  2. Your organization has an Intune subscription
  3. You have Entra ID permissions to add a device to Windows Autopilot (e.g. Intune Administrator)
  4. You have an USB storage device to save the Diagnostic logs

This is a restatement of the process outlined by Microsoft1. Those instructions lack a clear visual for navigating Intune.

Microsoft recommends that this method only be used for testing or other limited scenarios.

Steps

  1. Boot new PC to the OOBE
  2. Enter Diagnostics mode Ctrl + Alt + D
  3. Export Logs to USB Storage
  4. Identify the device hash csv file in the exported logs
  5. Login to Intune
  6. Navigate to Devices->Windows->Enrollment->Autopilot Enrollment
  7. Import the csv file from the Diagnostics logs with the hardware hash.
Intune Windows Device Enrollment Flow
Navigation to Intune Device Enrollment - Windows Autopilot
Windows Autopilot Device Enrollment Import
Import .CSV With Hardware Hash

References

  1. Microsoft documentation page ↩︎