Windows Autopilot




  1. Download the ISO.
  2. Mount the ISO in the VM.
  3. Boot to the first screen of OOBE.
  4. Press Shift-F10 to open a command prompt.
  5. Run PowerShell.exe.

The actual PowerShell command was:










Categories: Windows Autopilot

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  1. Great Article
    What about Time zones, it still only defaults to Pacific time when using OOBE AutoPilot AAD or HAAD join….

    Kind Regards
    Daniel Bleyer

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    • Yes, LXPs can be added offline. (As noted in the original blog, they can’t be used via unattend.xml to set the system language.) Yes, OEMs are able to add any languages needed.


  2. If you add all of the languages, which of the FOD components get downloaded once the OOBE completes? All FOD for all languages or just the ones relevant to the User Default language? I am thinking about the bandwidth impact during the user’s initial login experience, if an OEM does include all of the languages into their Generic Image. Particularly in a ship to home APWG scenario.


  3. Currently testing the LXP’s but I’m not impressed thus far regarding the translation behavior. But for having an EN-US base and injected 110 LXP’s the small size is impressive to say the least.

    Back to translation as such, OOBE looks reasonably fine when selecting the language. Logging on as a user I found that there’s a mixture of Languages from English to the Selected Language during OOBE. Being logged on a screen still showed the message in English rather than the selected Language (did see different behaviors with different languages), just like when logging off. Start menu is still in English for Power, but then restart and shutdown are translated, Explorer ribbon is partly translated which will be causing confusion I for end users (following i.e. manuals). Settings pages are a mixture of languages as well.Then as you explained it will download the different FOD’s for the selected language. One time it’s very quick but occasionally these download start very late or haven’t even been started to download after an hour whilst the system/vm has access to the internet.

    So I think the main question would be, is this ready to be used? Based on what I’ve seen, it’s not. As the translation has huge gaps to be honest, which seems also a bit depending on the language chosen. Which either customers or end users will not like at all from how I look at it..