Provisioning with the Windows Configuration Designer tool
The Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE) is the first-run setup experience that enables the configuration of Windows 10 devices purchased from the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). Connecting to a network, joining a domain, and creating an account, are just some of the settings that need to be configured during the first-run setup experience. The grouping of these and many other tasks together is known as provisioning, which represents a task to configure end-user devices. In this way, Windows provisioning makes it easy for system administrators to specify desired configuration and settings, thereby configuring devices in a matter of minutes. A provisioning package, .ppkg
, is a file that contains configuration settings.However, Windows provisioning does not remove the software pre-installed by the manufacturers that is commonly known as bloatware. Because of that, organizations frequently prefer to employ the wipe and load method, where...