{"id":4806,"date":"2023-06-19T08:50:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T15:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=4806"},"modified":"2023-06-19T08:50:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T15:50:52","slug":"how-to-delete-windows-autopilot-device-from-azure-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=4806","title":{"rendered":"How to Delete Windows Autopilot Device From Azure AD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Somewhere I had read that you cannot delete Windows Autopilot devices from Azure AD. In this post, I will show you how you can delete autopilot devices from Azure AD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I set up Autopilot (Autopilot Setup Guide) for the first time, I did not have a physical laptop for testing, so I had to use a virtual machine. Since then, the machine remained in the Azure AD, and recently, I wanted to clean up the autopilot device from the Azure portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to\u00a0Microsoft, Printers and\u00a0Windows Autopilot devices\u00a0cannot be deleted in Azure AD. I felt so when I attempted to delete the device, and I wasn\u2019t certain if I could delete it. Let\u2019s test that by deleting an Autopilot device from the Azure portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Launch the Azure portal and go to&nbsp;<strong>All Devices<\/strong>. It is easy to identify Autopilot device because it has a unique icon assigned. Select a Windows Autopilot device and try deleting it, and you will get the following error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You cannot delete Windows Autopilot devices here<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Your selection contains Windows Autopilot Devices. Unselect these devices to continue deleting any remaining selected devices. Click Cancel to return to the list of devices and keep the devices selected.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You get two options \u2013 Unselect these devices and continue and cancel. The other option that we have is disable. You can select an Autopilot device and disable it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prajwaldesai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Delete-Windows-Autopilot-Device-From-Azure-AD-Snap1-1024x388.jpg\" alt=\"You cannot delete Windows Autopilot devices from here\" class=\"wp-image-224654\" title=\"How to Delete Windows Autopilot Device From Azure AD 1\"\/><figcaption>You cannot delete Windows Autopilot devices from here<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Before you Remove Autopilot Device<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two things that you need to consider before removing or deleting Autopilot devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Completely removing a device from your tenant requires you to delete the Intune device, the Azure Active Directory device, and the Windows Autopilot device records.<\/li><li>If you want to delete Windows Autopilot devices that aren\u2019t enrolled into Intune, you can do that from&nbsp;<strong>Devices<\/strong>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<strong>Windows<\/strong>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<strong>Windows enrollment<\/strong>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<strong>Devices<\/strong>. More info can be found in the Microsoft&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/MicrosoftDocs\/IntuneDocs\/blob\/master\/intune\/enrollment\/enrollment-autopilot.md\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">documentation<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Delete Windows Autopilot Device From Azure AD<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s look at the steps to delete the Windows Autopilot device from Azure AD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>First login to Microsoft Endpoint Admin centre (Intune Portal).<\/li><li>Navigate to&nbsp;<strong>Devices<\/strong>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<strong>Windows<\/strong>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<strong>Windows enrollment<\/strong>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<strong>Devices<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Choose the devices you want to delete, then choose&nbsp;<strong>Delete<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Windows Autopilot device deletion can take a few minutes to complete.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prajwaldesai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Delete-Windows-Autopilot-Device-From-Azure-AD-Snap2-1024x477.jpg\" alt=\"Delete Windows Autopilot Device From Azure AD\" class=\"wp-image-224655\" title=\"How to Delete Windows Autopilot Device From Azure AD 2\"\/><figcaption>Delete Windows Autopilot Device From Azure AD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now we see the device has been deleted from Windows Autopilot devices section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prajwaldesai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Delete-Windows-Autopilot-Device-From-Azure-AD-Snap3-1024x409.jpg\" alt=\"Device Deleted\" class=\"wp-image-224656\" title=\"How to Delete Windows Autopilot Device From Azure AD 3\"\/><figcaption>Autopilot Device Deleted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Get back to Azure Portal and go to&nbsp;<strong>All Devices<\/strong>. Select Windows Autopilot device from the list and click&nbsp;<strong>Delete<\/strong>. This time you see a different message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Deleting the devices selected is permanent and will affect all accounts within this tenant on the selected devices. Are you sure you want to delete the selected device.&nbsp;<\/strong>Click&nbsp;<strong>Yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prajwaldesai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Delete-Windows-Autopilot-Device-From-Azure-AD-Snap4-1024x497.jpg\" alt=\"Delete Windows Autopilot Device From Azure AD\" class=\"wp-image-224657\" title=\"How to Delete Windows Autopilot Device From Azure AD 4\"\/><figcaption>Delete Windows Autopilot Device From Azure AD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>We now see the Windows Autopilot device has been deleted successfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prajwaldesai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Delete-Windows-Autopilot-Device-From-Azure-AD-Snap5-948x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Delete Windows Autopilot Device From Azure AD\" class=\"wp-image-224658\" width=\"929\" height=\"1003\" title=\"How to Delete Windows Autopilot Device From Azure AD 5\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ref: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prajwaldesai.com\/delete-windows-autopilot-device-from-azure-ad\/\">How to Delete Windows Autopilot Device From Azure AD (prajwaldesai.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere I had read that you cannot delete Windows Autopilot devices from Azure AD. In this post, I will show you how you can delete autopilot devices from Azure AD. When I set up Autopilot (Autopilot Setup Guide) for the first time, I did not have a physical laptop for testing, so I had to <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=4806\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1185,1249,10,14],"tags":[1629],"class_list":["post-4806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autopilot-intune","category-azure-microsoft","category-microsoft","category-windows-7-8-10","tag-delete-windows-autopilot-device-from-azure-ad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4807,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions\/4807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}