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Autopilot ESP stuck at Apps (Identifying): find the Win32 that fails with 0x81036502
When Autopilot ESP sticks on Apps (Identifying), the blocker is usually one tracked Win32—wrong detection, a failed install returning 0x81036502, or apps racing ahead of their dependencies. Here is how to find that app and stop the permanent ESP ticket queue.
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Autopilot device association: export the DeviceLink CSV, stamp UEFI, then enroll
Autopilot device association binds a physical Windows 11 device to your tenant before enrollment via a TPM-backed DeviceLink CSV and UEFI tenant affinity—not a classic hardware-hash upload. Here is the admin loop and what still breaks it.
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