Autopilot failures: identical spinners versus named by phase and cause
Before: every Autopilot/ESP failure looks the same and you cannot tell failed from still-running. After: a read-only report classifies each by phase and cause, so one blocking app is named and fixed.
Ketan Kamble
BEFORE · ALL LOOK THE SAME
AFTER · NAMED BY PHASE
STEP 1 · THE ESP STALLS
AUTOPILOT · ENROLMENT STATUS PAGE
Device setup · Something went wrong
no cause on screen
STEP 2 · EVERY ONE LOOKS IDENTICAL
PER-DEPLOYMENT ERRORS
failed? still running? — same amber spinner either way
STEP 3 · NO PATTERN
× 420
failures, unclassified
scrolled per device
failed and in-flight blur into one haze
▶ Collect-AutopilotOperations.ps1
read-only → classify by phase + category → Power BI
FAILURES BY PHASE · POWER BI
Device setup 62% · App install timeout: Contoso VPN
not “Autopilot is flaky” —
one app, one phase, named
Pause