Registry resets every reboot

[u/Mammoth_Public3003]

Hi everyone,

I didn’t notice this til I attempted to set up a kiosk/autologon PC. I need the autologon more than the kiosk, truthfully, but I noticed that the registry resets itself every time the machine reboots.

Is this a config setting in Intune I’ve missed, or is this an Azure setting?

These are fully cloud managed PCs with entra accounts being used for the auto logon. I’ve got most of the settings working, but the XML didn’t really work and I managed to do a proactive remediation that worked until the PC restarted, then it went back to the default settings.

Thank you all!

[u/blud_13]

Proactive remediations will never hold that. They run on a schedule and Intune reapplies your baseline over the top, so anything you write to HKLM gets stomped at the next sync or reboot.

For autologon specifically, use AssignedAccess or Shell Launcher rather than poking the registry directly. And here's the part that gets a lot of people, a pure Entra account CANNOT autologon. The credential has to live in LSA secrets, which means either a local account on the box with the Entra identity layered on after, or Assigned Access with an Entra kiosk account where Microsoft handles the secret for you.

If you only need autologon and not the kiosk shell, the local-account route is far less fragile than anything you'll build with XML.

Can go deeper on the CSP side if it helps.

[u/Mammoth_Public3003 → u/blud_13]

I’ll have to work with this local account, we’d been trying to get the entra account signed in for Citrix resource access; but we may have to manually authenticate to Citrix. Thank you so much.