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Usage

OOBE

The easiest way to use AutopilotOOBE is in OOBE (Out of Box Experience). Open a command prompt by pressing Shift + F10

Install AutopilotOOBE PowerShell Module

You will need to set the PowerShell Execution Policy, install the AutopilotOOBE Module, and run AutopilotOOBE. This is easy to do with the following commands

PowerShell
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Force
Install-Module AutopilotOOBE -Force
Import-Module AutopilotOOBE -Force

Start-AutopilotOOBE

Once the AutopilotOOBE PowerShell Module is installed, you can start AutopilotOOBE

Start-AutopilotOOBE

This will start the following chain of events

  • PowerShell Transcript will be saved in C:\Windows\Temp

  • PowerShell Gallery (PSGallery) will be Trusted

  • Date and Time will be displayed

  • Event Log will be monitored for MDM Events

  • Network will be tested for connectivity to required Servers

    • You may need to open Firewall traffic as needed

  • Registry will be checked to determine if the Device has an Autopilot Profile

  • AutopilotOOBE GUI will be launched

Watch-AutopilotOOBEevents

Event Logs will be monitored for MDM, Autopilot, and Time events. Not all events are displayed as this is filtered to remove some unnecessary details

This PowerShell window is run minimized and remains open upon completion. You can view this for troubleshooting by pressing ALT + TAB, or review the output in the PowerShell Transcript that is saved in C:\Temp

You may find it necessary to adjust your screen resolution to see things better. You can 'Show Windows Settings' and adjust the Resolution or Scaling as needed

Test-AutopilotOOBEnetwork

This PowerShell window is run minimized and remains open upon completion. You can view this for troubleshooting by pressing ALT + TAB, or review the output in the PowerShell Transcript that is saved in C:\Temp

AutopilotOOBE GUI

AutopilotOOBE will load with all options available in an unconfigured state. From here, just set what you want and press Register to connect to Microsoft Graph

Everybody's settings are probably going to be unique. Here are the settings that are ideal for my environment

After pressing Register the following steps will be completed

  1. Get-WindowsAutopilotInfo will be installed from the PowerShell Gallery

  2. Depending on what was selected in the AutopilotOOBE GUI, parameters will be passed to Get-WindowsAutopilotInfo

  3. You will be prompted to authenticate to MSGraph using the credentials for your Tenant

  4. Next

Once you complete this step, in a few minutes your Device will be Registered. If you selected the Assign checkbox, you may have to wait up to 20 minutes for this process to complete

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