How provisioning works

The flow

StageReady takes a Windows laptop from bare metal to fully provisioned in a single boot:

Dashboard

A technician picks the client and profile, and gets a 6-digit code.

USB / WinPE

The device boots the stick, takes the code, and asks the platform what to do.

Windows install

Windows 11 goes down from bare metal, with the right OEM driver pack.

Client tenant

The device registers into Autopilot and lands ready to hand over.

1. 1

   Generate a code

   In the dashboard, pick the client and a setup profile. You get a 6-digit code that works once and expires in minutes.

2. 2

   Boot the USB and enter it

   Boot the device from the StageReady stick and type the code. The device confirms which client it's provisioning for.

3. 3

   Windows installs

   StageReady installs Windows 11 from a blank disk.

4. 4

   Enroll and configure

   The device registers into the client's Windows Autopilot, and region, language, keyboard and timezone are applied.

5. 5

   Walk away

   Every step reports to your dashboard live and is recorded permanently.

Bare metal or existing Windows

StageReady is true bare-metal: it installs the operating system itself. Which steps run is decided by how you start the job, not by what's already on the disk.

• Boot from the StageReady USB and the install step runs: the target disk is wiped and reimaged, even if it had a working Windows and data on it. There is no prompt, so back up anything you need first.
• Run Provision.cmd from inside an existing Windows — a machine straight from the manufacturer, or one being repurposed in place — and the job never boots WinPE, so the install step is skipped, along with the rest of the WinPE phase including BIOS configuration. Everything from the installed OS onward runs as normal.

Anything skipped is shown as skipped on the job, with the reason.

What's on the USB

Nothing sensitive. The stick is a messenger: it knows how to phone home to StageReady and nothing else. No passwords, no client names, no logic.

Proof of work

Because every code, step, and device is logged permanently, you can show any client exactly what was done, when, and by whom.