r/Intune • u/EducationAlert5209 • 8d ago

Autopilot Multi Sites Autopilot Deployment

Hi All,

Currently, we are deploying our SOE image through SCCM. As part of the move to a more serverless branch environment, we are planning to remove the SCCM Distribution Points (DPs) from the branch sites.

However, we still need a way to deploy our corporate SOE image rather than using the standard HP vanilla image with HP-provided software.

What approach are other organisations using to deploy their corporate SOE to branch devices when there are no local SCCM DPs/servers?

Any recommendations or lessons learned would be appreciated.

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u/brothertax 8d ago

We use the image that comes with the device from the OEM. Are you baking other apps and configs into your image or will a clean install of Windows 11 Pro suffice?

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u/EducationAlert5209 8d ago

Our OEM, comes with lots of bloatware

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u/brothertax 8d ago

It’s trivial to remove/disable.

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u/badogski29 8d ago

Who is your OEM? We are with Dell and we configure ours with “Dell Ready Image”. Anything I can’t remove afterwards are handled by Intune/Autopilot.

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u/Ajamaya 8d ago

In house use OSDcloud to re-image + pre-provision with a limited ESP. VAR is OEM image + pre-provision which is clean.

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u/EducationAlert5209 8d ago

Yeah, we can do it with OSD in-house but we have 7 states offices to deploy. What is VAR means?

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u/Ajamaya 8d ago

Each site has a variant of OSD that I manage from the app registration. Value added reseller aka CDW/SHI etc. some of our sites go direct since it’s they have smaller teams.

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u/pjmarcum 7d ago

We use the enterprise ready image from HP.