We Were Reimaging Laptops the Hard Way for 3 Years. I Fixed It in an Afternoon.

When I joined the IT team at a corporate headquarters, one of my first tasks was learning the reimaging process. We had a long counter lined with 12 to 18 laptops at a time, and the process went something like this: Go to Intune, delete the device record, enrollment record, and Azure AD record Walk to the laptop, boot from a Windows 11 USB installer, perform a clean install Wait. Perform all Windows Updates — drivers too — while the device is unmanaged Walk back to the laptop, run a PowerShell s