Windows AutoPilot is system management without the servers. Similar to Microsoft's InTune or SCCM, Windows AutoPilot can be used to manage devices. It requires Azure AD and some cloud-based services but the result is you can configure and tweak your devices and recover/reconfigure them quite easily without the infrastructure costs associated with a traditional SCCM multi-site deployment architecture.
At the time of writing this book, the current capabilities of AutoPilot are:
- Automatically join devices to Azure AD
- Auto-enroll devices into MDM services, such as Microsoft Intune (requires an Azure AD Premium subscription: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/windows-10-auto-pilot#prerequisites)
- Restrict the administrator account creation
- Create and auto-assign devices to configuration groups based on a device's profile
- Customize Out of Box...
