Plan for Change: Upcoming changes for deploying Windows Autopilot for existing devices

We are updated the Windows Autopilot enrollment experience, starting September 5, 2024. Note that some customers received MC772891, describing this change but with a date of July 5. We are now extending the timeline until September 5, 2024. This change will prevent new device enrollments via the ‘Windows Autopilot deployment for existing devices’ feature, when organizational enrollment restrictions blocking personal device enrollment are configured.

How does this affect me

You can continue to use Windows Autopilot for existing devices functionality with personal enrollment restrictions until September 5, 2024; however, we encourage your organization to upgrade devices with older operating systems to Windows 10 or 11 and register them through Windows Autopilot to avoid any impact resulting from this change. To continue using Autopilot for existing devices with enrollment restrictions blocking personal devices, register all devices for Autopilot or upload the Windows corporate identifiers.

For more information regarding the Windows Autopilot device registration process, please see the documentation: Windows Autopilot registration overview. This is in line with the behavior of other automatic MDM enrollment methods where we cannot verify the device identity.

What action do I need to take

Move to using corporate identifiers by September 5, 2024. If you cannot make enrollment changes, please refer to this blog post: https://aka.ms/Autopilot_7_2_update_blogpost for additional information and use the form linked in the blog to request extension.