windows autopilot

An Entra-joined Windows device that is absent from Intune is not automatically an Intune failure. Diagnose it as one of three states: MDM enrollment never triggered, enrollment triggered but failed, or the device is already enrolled in another MDM. That framework prevents unnecessary resets...

On July 2, 2026, Microsoft published a customer story detailing how Brazil’s GOL Airlines moved airport device management to Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Entra ID, and Windows Autopilot across 84 operational bases. The case study is not just another cloud-migration victory lap. It is a useful...

Syracuse University said on June 2, 2026, that it is using Microsoft Surface devices, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Foundry, Power Platform, Intune, Windows Autopilot, and a PwC implementation partnership to build a connected, AI-enabled campus serving more than 22,000 students in Syracuse, New...

Microsoft’s retirement of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) is doing more than closing the book on an old deployment utility. It is forcing IT teams to confront a harder question: what still belongs in a modern Windows imaging strategy, and what can finally move to the cloud? The answer is...

Microsoft’s abrupt retirement of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) has left a sizable portion of the Windows systems administration community scrambling — existing deployments will continue to run for now, but Microsoft will issue no further updates, security patches, or compatibility...

Microsoft’s sudden retirement of the long‑standing Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) marks a decisive break with a toolset that generations of Windows administrators relied on for offline, scriptable, and repeatable operating‑system imaging and provisioning. The company’s documentation now...

Microsoft has given the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) an abrupt and final farewell: the veteran, free toolkit that generations of Windows administrators relied on for building and automating OS images has been officially retired with immediate effect, leaving existing deployments to limp on...