Microsoft took the wraps off its Windows AutoPilot service for the installation of, resetting and recovering devices last summer. Right now, Lenovo provided an update on its implementation plans for Windows AutoPilot.

At its Ignite conference in September, Microsoft officials declared starting in January 2018, Lenovo and HP would begin offering customers Windows AutoPilot.

In a April 17 blog post, Lenovo officials said they're now testing Windows AutoPilot with select early-adopter customers. General availability because of the large enterprise users can happen "in the coming months," i was told that.

Lenovo is directly integrating with Windows AutoPilot to get users to enroll Lenovo PCs inside their Azure Active Directory tenants before they receive their PCs. When users sign proper customized out-of-box founded experience, the provisioning and security policies will undoubtedly be delivered automatically. Customers will even have the option of combining Windows AutoPilot with Windows 10 preloaded images, and also with customer-designated applications and cloud-storage capabilities already integrated, your web page post said.

As originally announced by Microsoft, the Windows AutoPilot Deployment Program is perfect OEMs, distributors, and resellers. It allows them to provide users with "business-ready" devices by linking Windows 10 PCs for organization, existing Azure Active Directory, and Intune mobile-device management services and preloading it with Office 365 ProPlus apps.

I've not seen/heard anything regarding where HP reaches in its planned AutoPilot deployment. During 2009, Microsoft made AutoPilot possible for its Surface devices.

Microsoft documentation for Windows Autopilot is on a Microsoft Docs site.