Why are we using Autopilot group tags?
Why are we using Autopilot group tag? Do we need group tags? Two valid questions which I will discuss in this blog post. So, why do we use group tags? The short answer, to add the device to the correct group! The long answer As we are in over 40 countries and might even have multiple entities in those countries, we have around 90 legal entities with their own local support teams, and so we need to be able to distinguish the devices per entity. Next, we have different device types for different use cases, we call them worker types. We currently have the standard device, engineering device, shared device, virtual device and kiosk device. User can have multiple devices which have different worker types. So, that is the second requirement. Other requirements are to separate laptops, desktops and virtual devices. And yes, we could use filters instead, but they were not available 4 years ago. And finally, the need to mark devices as pre-production and to be able to see which glob...