Intune automatic sign in?

Question

Hi,
I am building a Intune deployment that requires the PC's to auto sign in with the same username for each deployment. This can be either a local account or a Azure account, doesn't really matter.

How can I automate this process into the intune build?

I tried the guest account in shared pc but could not get it to auto login as it changes guest account name after each reboot.

Kind regards,
Max

Answer 1

@Max , Research and find the following methods for your reference:

1. Windows Kiosk mode has the setting to configure Auto logon under "User logon type". You can configure this to make the auto logon work. Here is a link with more details for the reference:
   https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/configuration/kiosk-settings-windows
2. I find on windows side, we can enable Automatically Sign in Account at Startup. You can choose one device to test if change the registry key can make it work. If it works, we can try to deploy the registry key via script in Intune.
   https://www.elevenforum.com/t/enable-or-disable-automatically-sign-in-account-at-startup-in-windows-11.835/
   Note: Non-Microsoft link, just for the reference.

You can try either of the above method. If there's any question, feel free to let us know.

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Answer 2

Option 1 will not work as I do not want the devices in the Kiosk mode. I will try option 2 and report back.

Answer 3

Ok so I made the following script.

1. Tested in standard Windows 10 environment - Works fine and does what's advertised.
2. Packaged it into a win32.intune and deployed it as Required
3. New Autopiloted machine - Fails during build process

   Description - This PS script will first create a local user and then set the PC to auto logon using that account

   Configuration

   $username = "XXUSERNAME" # Username of local account
   $password = ConvertTo-SecureString "XXXXXXXXXXXXX" -AsPlainText -Force # Password of local account
   $RegPath = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon"

   Creating the user

   New-LocalUser -Name "$username" -Password $password -FullName "$username" -Description "XXX"

   Update registry

   Set-ItemProperty $RegPath "AutoAdminLogon" -Value "1" -type String
   Set-ItemProperty $RegPath "DefaultUsername" -Value "$username" -type String
   Set-ItemProperty $RegPath "DefaultPassword" -Value "$password" -type String

Answer 4

No it needs to autologin sorry

Answer 5

Have you able to find a way to do it during Autopilot, if I run a script, it only works when a user login. Thank you.I tried to deploy as an application, failed at Autopilot