Autopilot V2 Device Deployment, Can it finally be Hands Free?

In this episode of Turn It Off and On Again, we fire up the time machine and revisit the wild west of Windows deployment. Remember the days of Norton Ghost? You would be praying your image didn’t corrupt at 99%, and hoping the lab PC you were cloning from didn’t decide to blue‑screen? Good times, actually not really.

From there we progressed into the SCCM era, thick images, thin images, task sequences that ran for hours, and the eternal struggle of “Why is this driver pack 4GB?”. If you’ve ever spent a weekend rebuilding a WIM, then hopefully I have a solution for you.

Then we fast‑forward to the cloud age, where Intune and Autopilot V2 finally let us retire the imaging treadmill. We walk through a full end‑to‑end Autopilot V2 deployment, showing how modern provisioning flips the whole process on its head—no gold images, no PXE boot rituals, no tears. It’s a quick nostalgic look back, a practical look forward, and a reminder of just how far device provisioning has come. Perfect for MSPs, IT pros, and anyone who’s ever said, “Surely there’s a better way to do this.”