Windows Autopilot self-deploying mode
Answer: Self-deploying mode is a corporate-owned, userless Autopilot flow that requires a registered device, assigned profile, supported TPM attestation, network access, and an appropriate device-management licensing model.
Administrator playbook
Decide, verify, and document
Use the curated answer as a starting point, then prove the outcome against the target tenant or device.
What it means
- Designed for kiosks, shared devices, and userless scenarios
- TPM attestation is central to the flow
- No user credentials are entered during provisioning
What to check next
- Confirm hardware hash, profile assignment, and device ownership
- Validate TPM 2.0 attestation and firmware readiness
- Check network access to required Microsoft endpoints
Verify success
- Confirm a new device record appears in the intended tenant and ownership state.
- Verify the device checks in, receives policy, and reports compliant or the expected transitional state.
- Capture a fresh successful enrollment timestamp and remove obsolete duplicate records.
Escalate when
- Multiple known-good users or devices fail at the same enrollment stage.
- The failure persists after scope, restriction, licensing, and stale-object checks.
- You can provide sanitized enrollment logs, UTC time, tenant, and correlation identifiers.
Copyable admin briefAnswer, next checks, source, and review date
Inspect join and registration state
dsregcmd /statusRead-only. Review Device State, Tenant Details, and SSO State; redact tenant and user identifiers before sharing.
Collect enrollment diagnostics
mdmdiagnosticstool.exe -area "DeviceEnrollment;DeviceProvisioning;Autopilot" -zip "C:\Users\Public\Documents\MDMDiagReport.zip"Creates a local ZIP. Review and redact identifiers before sharing it.
Evidence to preserve
- Platform
- Windows
- Ownership
- Corporate
- User affinity
- None
- Reset
- Required for the OOBE flow
- Platform, ownership, and OS version
- User license and MDM scope
- Enrollment restriction and device limit
- UTC failure time and enrollment error