Many persistent errors in Event Viewer after Windows 11 build 22598.ni_release.220408-1503: "Autopilot.dll wil error was reported"

Question

I used to be part of the the Windows 11 Insider Beta channel. After updating to build 22598.ni_release.220408-1503 I began to see the same error in Event Viewer extremely frequently:

The errors are all the same and read as follows:

Autopilot.dll WIL error was reported.

HRESULT: 0x80070491

File: onecoreuap\admin\moderndeployment\autopilot\dll\dllmain.cpp, line 128

Message: NULL

I have never used any program called Autopilot or Modern Deployment. After seeing this problem I immediately left the insider program and am now queued for enrollment. However no new Windows update has happened and these errors persist. How do I prevent these errors?

Answer 1

Hello ! please excuse my poor english langage, but this question seems not interesting french people ! i try to install the program "garmin express" all seems to be right (no error) but when i run it, nothing, no error.In windows i find error "moderndeployment, autopilot error WIL -80070491" thanks to all !

Answer 2

I still doubt that this is causing any of the crashes people are claiming. They're just seeing this annoying spammy error while they're having issues due to some other problem.

Answer 3

No. I have no VPN - same error.

Answer 4

After completing a fresh Windows 11 installation without saving any files from the previous installation, this error has not appeared even though the sign-in service is running.

Installing Windows 11 22H2 fresh requires signing in with a Microsoft account, but after setting up the system, users can change the account into a local one, thus avoiding having to put in a PIN or password. The topic error has not occurred for me so far with either account type, so that's a positive. (Having to sign in to my local system with an MS account for the first boot is annoying and seemingly unnecessary.)

On a side note, I cannot recommend Windows 11 22H2, because Microsoft has made so many unnecessary features and settings default. I have spent over three hours so far disabling, uninstalling, and changing settings that I do not want. For example, by default, essential folders like Documents and Desktop are in the OneDrive folder, so if you do not want to use OneDrive, you have to uninstall OneDrive, Unlink your system from OneDrive, and reassign those folders' locations back to their normal place, which ironically is called the default location. There is a multitude of similar annoyances in this version. I would expect this sort of thing if I'd purchased a Dell-built PC, but this is just the standard operating system. Sad times.

Answer 5

My grandfather was an early installer of Onedrive with 365. Early installations of Onedrive had their Documents disappear one day until Microsoft fixed it. Terrifying.