New Training: Plan and Implement Windows 10 by Using Windows Autopilot

In this 9-video skill, CBT Nuggets trainer James Conrad uses Microsoft Azure and a mobile device management product to deploy, update, and repurpose Windows 10 machines.

Learn Microsoft 365, Microsoft Windows 10 with one of these courses:

• Managing Modern Desktops

• Microsoft 365 Certified: Modern Desktop Administrator Associate

This training includes:

• 9 videos

• 55 minutes of training

You’ll learn these topics in this skill:

• Introduction to Windows Autopilot

• Windows 10 Deployment Methods

• Create an Azure Virtual Machine

• Autopilot Overview

• Autopilot Requirements

• Extract Device Hardware

• Import Device Hardware

• Deploy with Windows Autopilot

• Summary of Windows Autopilot

Autopilot: A Better Way to Handle the Enterprise Device Lifecycle

Before Autopilot, IT admins would have to spend an enormous amount of time creating, managing, and deploying device images in the enterprise enviroment. It's not uncommon for IT admins to spend months creating and testing a golden image for a single model of a laptop – much less maintaining and updating those images.

Autopilot streamlines that process by moving device configuration deployment to the cloud. Instead of IT staff needing to image and deploy devices onsite, businesses can purchase and deliver new hardware straight to the end user. The software deployment and configuration of that new device is automatic.

For the end-user, this process is as simple as powering on a new laptop and following the standard Windows 10 configuration wizard. Once that wizard is started, apps, configurations, policies, etc… are streamed from Azure to run Autopilot to that device.

Recovering and redeploying devices is as simple as resetting Windows 10.

The Autopilot service streamlines hardware deployment and support dramatically. It can reduce time to device deployment, device testing, support costs, and more. Autopilot is a tool that every enterprise should be utilizing – especially in a mixed device environment.