GPO-AutopilotHashGenerator

Powershell Script that generates Windows Autopilot Hashes (HWID) to a CSV on a File Share location

Why?

The existing Windows 10 clients were not Microsoft EntraID joined, and needed to be upgraded (clean-installed) to Windows 11

I wanted to be fully in control of the Hash-generation/upload and didn’t want to make the step of joining the existing devices to Entra, to convert them to Autopilot (and thereby use the built-in GPO).

With this script we can export the hashes, per client to a file location and upload them manually one-by-one (if wanted).

After letting the script run for a couple of weeks I combined the hashes in one single CSV file (after filtering, only wanted some devices) and uploaded it in the Autopilot Devices interface.

How to Use

1. Download the Repository
2. Create a (hidden) File-share, set ‘Everyone’ to Read (e.g. \\SERVERNAME\Autopilot$)
3. Copy the files of the repo to the created file-share
4. Open HWID.cmd in a text-editor (VS Code, Notepad++ etc.)
5. Edit line 2: Change file-share location to the created File share – PS1 Script location (e.g. \\SERVERNAME\Autopilot$\Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo.ps1)
6. Edit line 4: Change file-share location to the created File share – HWID Location (e.g. \\SERVERNAME\Autopilot$\Hashes)
7. Open the Group Policy Editor
8. Create a new policy, scope to Domain Computers
9. Go to ‘Windows Settings -> Scripts (Startup/Shutdown)-> Startup
10. Add the HWID.cmd script to Startup Scripts
11. Scope to Domain Computers
12. Done!