Collect AutoPilot Info from Remote Machine

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How can you collect AutoPilot information from a Remote Machine? In this blog I will show you how you can grab this information.

Prerequisites Remote Machine

You need to have the following prequisites ready:

1. On the remote machine the WinRM service must be running.
2. The network must allow WinRM connections.
3. The Windows Firewall on the remote machine must allow WinRM connections.

Example Collect AutoPilot Info

This is an example of grabbing AutoPilot Information for a remote Windows Domain joined machine.

Firstly, you need to start an elevated Powershell session on the machine where you want initiate the session from.

After that, run this command: (use accordingly for your situation)

$Enter-PSSession -ComputerName "Remote Device" -Credential "Your Account"

You will get a pop-up for credentials:

Credential Pop-up

You now have entered the remote Powershell Session. Check this by seeing the remote computer name in your Powershell Window:

Remote Powershell Session For AutoPilot info collect

We now need to register a Remote PS Session configuration. Otherwise the double hop problem occurs, link.

Run the following command:

Register-PSSessionConfiguration -Name RPS -RunAsCredential "Your Account" -MaximumReceivedDataSizePerCommandMB 1000 -MaximumReceivedObjectSizeMB 1000

Another credential window will appear with a warning that you must trust the remote computer. (we will remove the session configuration at the end of the blog)

Now exit this Powershell Session returning to the orginal one with the “exit” command:

Enter a new session with the registered Remote PS Session Configuration by using this command:

Enter-PSSession -ComputerName NKOTEST5 -Credential "Your Account" -ConfigurationName RPS

You will get another credentials pop-up:

Credential Pop-up

We are now ready to collect the AutoPilot info. Run the following code: (make sure you can access the Share where you are going to put the CSV file)

If ($InstalledScripts.name -notcontains "Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo") {
    Write-Host Installing NuGet & AutoPilot Info Script
    Install-PackageProvider -Name nuget -force
    Start-Sleep 10
    Install-Script -Name "Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo" -force

}
#Set ExecutionPolicy to bypass temporarily
set-executionpolicy bypass

Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo.ps1 -OutputFile "\\SHARENAME\AutoPilotInfo\Computers.csv" -Append

Check your CSV file on the share mentioned earlier and see that the info has been added:

Collect AutoPilot Info from Remote Machine
Collect AutoPilot Info from Remote Machine

The last thing to do is to remove the PS Session configuration. You can do so by using this code:

Unregister-PSSessionConfiguration -Name RPS

Now there are no encrypted password anymore on the remote device and the AutoPilot information has been captured.

I am going to automate this further. I will create a script which collects Autopilot information from several remote machines.

References

Ofcourse the script that is downloaded is created by Micheal Niehaus:

https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Get-WindowsAutoPilotInfo/2.3

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/sergey_babkins_blog/another-solution-to-multi-hop-powershell-remoting
https://www.nielskok.tech/microsoft365/windows-10-autopilot-info-upload-script/

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