Autopilot and ESP policy issues
I recently dealt with an Autopilot issue which prompted me to capture my experience in this blog. Now issues during Autopilot provisioning is fairly common. Especially when Microsoft introduces changes in the backend that affects the Autopilot provisioning process. Now I am not sure if the issue I experienced was a result of some changes made by Microsoft or not, but it certainly affected some tenants as many others reported similar issues on Twitter . Let me explain the issue in detail. In my case it started with AP timing out with the infamous 0x800705b4 error. Running Get-AutopilotDiagnostics led me to believe that something was wrong with how policies were getting evaluated as ESP showed as not assigned. This is odd. Why would ESP not show assigned when the very same policy had been running for weeks without any issues? What is even more strange that the diagnostics showed ESP as blocking. That would explain the timeout error I was seeing. To test my theory of a possible issue wit...