Hi Community,

Are you also creating a bunch of HyperV machines to test out Intune configs, Autopilot enrollments? If the answer is yes to this question i have something cool for you. It is called HyperPilot. This tool is created by Steven Weiner, he is also an Intune MVP and probably one of the funniest people i have ever met. Make sure to follow him on Linked-in and subscribe to his YouTube channel where is has a lot of super valuable information.

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With HyperPilot you can easily create HyperV VM’s in order to test them out in Intune. You can download the tool here, you can opt-in for a trial version or just buy it immediately.

HyperPilot - Effortless VM Deployment

With HyperPilot, you can rapidly test and deploy virtual devices without dealing with complex Hyper-V navigation or manual enrollment.

Once you have downloaded the tool just run it, i will go over the steps to get your 1st HyperPilot VM up and running.

Prerequisites

Not many prereqs are needed in order to get started. you need the HyperV feature installed on your device. It might be possible that you need to alter your bios settings to enable virtualisation. An intune tenant is also prefered and enough diskspace to store your VM’s, templates, …

So very easy right?

HyperPilot

Install – Configure

When you open HyperPilot for the 1st time you will be presented with this screen. It also looks cool so also kudo’s for the design. 😉 Just accecpt the EULA as we are so used to do.

Now enter your email address and the license key you received when you applied for a trial. Click check license.

Your license will be verified. Click install.

Now the app will check if HyperV is installed.

Now is also the time to choose a storage location. Choose a disk with enough storage because here your VM’s will be stored and we all know that VM’s can take up a lot of space. For testing purposes i will just put it on my C:\ drive in a folder called HyperPilot.

Now you can begin to download your base images. In HyperPilot you can download 3 base images. Win 11 22H2, Win 11 23H2 and Win 11 24H2. If a new OS will come out this will be added. I will go for Win 11 24H2. Just select it and click continue.

Now that everything has been setup just click install.

Now HyperPilot will do some checks, creates the needed folders and downloads your chosen Windows version.

Your Windows version will be stored in the templates folder.

When everything is complete you will get this screen. Just click Launch HyperPilot.

Now let’s go over the different settings you can alter. We start with Images.

Settings

Images

When you click the images button you can download extra Windows version to your device from where HyperPilot can create VM’s. Im my case i already downloaded the 24H2 version so i’m good. If you want other versions feel free to download them from here.

Accounts

Here you can add your account for your Microsoft environment. Just click add and you will be redirected to log in. Make sure you have the necessary rights on your account to give consent to the app.

After accepting you will ge this message:

Now when you return to HyperPilot you will see that your tenant is in there. Your token will be cached also so you don’t need to login every single time which is very conventient.

Settings

On the settings you can deactivate  or upgrade your license and see the version of the app. You can also get your VM’s auto configured with the cores and RAM you need. I have set mine to 4 cores and 8GB of RAM. You can alter these settings also in HyperV itself after the creation.

Logs

HyperPilot also collects logs, when you click on the logs button your explorer will open in the logs folder.

And that is it on configuration and setup. Now let’s create a VM with HyperPilot.

Create a VM with HyperPilot

To create a VM just click on create VM and Create new VM.

Enter a prefix – the creation date will be added ans also a random of 4 digits. These random digits will be replaced by 1st 4 digits of the VM’s serials number after creation. Click next.

Now choose you Windows version. If you download all version all 3 versions will be highlighted and selectable, in my case i have only 24H2.  Select your version and click next.

Now on the Autopilot enrollment screen you can select your account/tenant you added earlier, you can also tick the box for Autopilot Registration, this will automatically add the corporate identifier for this device. Select all appropriate settings for your VM and click next.

On the Confifg section you can see that auto configure in enabled, so for me no change needed here. Alter if you want and click next.

Now we can verify our settings and go back if needed. No changes needed for me so click create VM.

Now you can see the progress of your VM creation.

When everything is ready you can create another VM or choose to open HyperV. I will open HyperV. My CM is created and shows in the HyperV Manager.

Now let’s check the settings of this VM. TPM is enabled, it has got the 4 cores and the 8GB of ram i specified. So all good. You can still alter the settings here if you want.

Also let’s check intune, we have ticked the box for Autopilot registration so our device should be in the corporate identifiers list. To check this go to the Intune portal – Devices – Enrollment – Corporate Identifiers. And ow yes the device is there.

So that’s it, you are good to go to create test VM’s with HyperPilot. Do check out this tool, if you are creating as much VM’s as i do this app will save you a lot of time and it will be less of a clickfest. 😉

And as always if you feel there is something in error or you want to add some stuff from your own experience don’t hesitate to contact me!