Deploying existing Windows devices into Microsoft Endpoint Manager

This scenario applies to physical Windows endpoints only.

In enterprise companies today, the normal approach is to leverage OS deployment either from Microsoft Endpoint Manager Configuration Manager or Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit is simpler as it only requires access to a share, where the Windows 10 OS driver application is stored.

Both Configuration Manager and Deployment Toolkit often require the device to be on-premises to join the corporate Active Directory (AD) and have access to the Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) server to even getting started with OS deployment.

Over the last few decades, enterprise companies have started to delete all the work that the OEM put into making a device run in the most optimal way with Windows 10, drivers, and the combination of the settings that are needed on a brand-new device to perform in the best way possible. This was done by...