M365 Series - Windows Autopilot White Glove – What is it?

The world of Windows deployment is radically changing in the last couple of years with Windows 10.

With the introduction of Windows as a Service, Windows Autopilot and the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, the need to create a golden image and deploying it massively is no more the “only good scenario” available for enterprises.

Specifically the Windows Autopilot was a very nice way to give the user a machine where he only needed to login with it’s corporate device and the machine get all the corporate configurations.

But…in a lot of scenarios this was a poor experience for the end user that needed to wait a lot of time before he really could use the machine, specially in a poor network environment.

Thinking on this issue, Microsoft developed Windows Autopilot White Glove.
This basically allows IT Administrator to do all the initial work of pre-provisioning all “non-user specific” data. For example, corporate wide software.

After this pre-provisioning, when the user receives the machine, the Autopilot process just resumes the process for the “user-specific” configuration.

Take a look at Windows Autopilot White Glove in action: