How do skip the account setup phase during enrollment for Windows Autopilot devices?

Overview

This article describes how to skip the account set up phase during enrollment for Windows Autopilot devices.

How to skip the account set up phase

If a Windows device hangs at, or takes an unusually long time to process, the "Account setup" phase during Windows Autopilot enrollment, the user portion of the Enrollment Status Page (ESP) can be disabled using an Intune custom configuration profile. Microsoft documents this as a supported method for skipping the user ESP portion when an ESP has already been configured on the device.

In the Microsoft Intune admin center, create a custom Windows configuration profile and add the following OMA-URI setting:

Assign the configuration profile to the devices that should skip the Account setup phase. When this setting is applied, Windows skips the user ESP portion of enrollment rather than waiting for user-targeted applications and policies to complete during Account setup.

This setting does not disable the entire Enrollment Status Page. The device-related ESP phases can still run normally; only the user Account setup portion is skipped.

For additional details and troubleshooting guidance, see Microsoft's Troubleshooting the Enrollment Status Page documentation.