ebay laptop with MDM InTune

[the-photographer]

Hello, I have received a laptop from a business seller on ebay (selling hundreds of laptops).

When trying to install Windows, it prompts for a corporate email address.

Is there any workarounds? I've read you need to find the original company and have it removed from their inventory or maybe an offline Windows install might bypass the prompt.

Thanks

[Suspicious_user]

I would return this to the eBay seller as it's not been removed from Intune. It is likely that they bought a job lot from somewhere and this machine wasn't removed from the inventorying the correct way.

[the-photographer]

Yes, I have sent a return request and don't expect any trouble getting a refund based on their feedback.

[HiAsAKite]

Suspicious_user said:

I would return this to the eBay seller as it's not been removed from Intune. It is likely that they bought a job lot from somewhere and this machine wasn't removed from the inventorying the correct way.

And I'd question whether the original job lot they bought was originally "bought" from the original users.. though one should never automatically assign malicious intent for what can be equally explained by incomptence/error

[the-photographer]

HiAsAKite said:

Suspicious_user said:

I would return this to the eBay seller as it's not been removed from Intune. It is likely that they bought a job lot from somewhere and this machine wasn't removed from the inventorying the correct way.

And I'd question whether the original job lot they bought was originally "bought" from the original users.. though one should never automatically assign malicious intent for what can be equally explained by incomptence/error

They claim they have the original invoice, but won't share it with me.... its not a special laptop, so I will return and look for another one.

[HiAsAKite]

Probably just a cock up then

[PageyUK]

Fairly easily done sadly.

Intune has an area where the Enrolled devices show. Most people click the wipe from there and reset the Laptop, but if the Laptop was enrolled in a function in Intune called 'Autopilot', it will lock the Laptop to it using the unique hash tied to the Motherboard components.

It's fairly easy and quick to remove it, the owning company just needs to delete it from the Autopilot Devices node. It will then be released from that companies Azure tenant. You can then reset it and it will work as you want.

[2fast748]

Shift-F10 during setup, type oobe\bypassnro in the command window that follows the reboot, click I don't have internet, then set it up as standalone.

[the-photographer]

2fast748 said:

Shift-F10 during setup, type oobe\bypassnro in the command window that follows the reboot, click I don't have internet, then set it up as standalone.

Thanks, I've read that's the "fix" but it doesn't help if/when I resell the laptop, its only a Dell 7440, so I'll find another one.