Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Autopilot AAD Registers device instead of AAD Join

 

Certain devices would consistently fail to AAD/Entra Join during Autopilot.  The devices would show as AAD/Entra Registered instead of AAD/Entra Joined in the Intune device list. Autopilot would complete and the build would appear to be normal but the failure to AAD/Entra Join resulted in unexpected states.    For example Windows 11 would update itself to a release level 24H2 which was not sanctioned by the Intune MDM for the current platform.

The solution was to delete the Autopilot device from the Enrolled devices list and then upload a fresh hardware hash.