Windows Autopilot uses several mechanisms to function. A common one is the device’s hardware hash, also called the hardware ID. There are several ways to gather the hardware ID from a device to use in Windows Autopilot.

In this post, I will show step-by-step how to get the hardware ID from a system with PowerShell and how to import it into Windows Autopilot. The process is the same regardless of whether the system is a virtual machine or a physical machine, and it doesn’t matter if the system is running Windows 10 or Windows 11.

Get Hardware ID

• Open PowerShell as Admin.

• Run the following command to enable TLS 1.2 [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12

• The following command will create a folder named HWID on the root of C for the hardware ID file New-Item -Type Directory -Path "C:\HWID"

• Switch into that directory with the following command Set-Location -Path "C:\HWID"

• Add C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Scripts to the path environment variable by running the following command $env:Path += ";C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Scripts"

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