Evolution of WaaS
Microsoft has continued to evolve the WaaS journey with the release of Windows 11. Considering this, to help enterprise environments keep up, Microsoft has made significant investments in tools and process development focused on deployment, Autopilot being probably the best example.
While the tools changed, the idea of configuring and tweaking an image without having to go through time-consuming task sequence steps and rigorous and methodical tweaking of settings is certainly a boon for the enterprise administrator (and perhaps a bane for the deployment-focused IT professional). It’s my firm belief that IT is heading down a path where imaging (as we now know it) will be a thing of the past, where a Windows 11 machine can be plugged into a network, joined to Active Directory or Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), and policies are pushed down to configure the user experience (UX). I further suspect that eventually, a container-like technology will take hold...
