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        "content_html": "<h2>Source facts</h2>\n<p>In Intune macOS automated device enrollment, configuring local administrator or user account settings enables Await final configuration in the background, even if the administrator leaves that setting untouched. That locked setup stage runs during enrollment; it is not repeated unless the Mac enrolls again. Microsoft specifies no minimum or maximum duration for this stage. <a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/device-enrollment/apple/setup-automated-macos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Learn</a>.</p>\n<h2>Applicability</h2>\n<p>Review this dependency when adding local-account settings to a macOS ADE policy or investigating a changed staging experience. Compare the complete account and enrollment policy with the version previously approved.</p>\n<h2>DSE recommendation</h2>\n<p>Tell the staging team that the account choice changes the setup hold, not just the resulting account details. Allocate a representative provisioning test and an escalation route for an unexpectedly long wait. Avoid promising a fixed completion deadline from an illustrative timing observation, and do not remove account controls merely to make the screen disappear.</p>\n<h2>Verification</h2>\n<p>Enroll an approved test Mac using the proposed policy. Observe the final-configuration stage, resulting account configuration, and device readiness before handoff. Record the policy revision and actual elapsed time as a local observation, not a service guarantee. Recheck the sequence after changing account settings or the assigned configuration set.</p>\n<h2>Official references</h2>\n<p><a href=\"https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/device-enrollment/apple/setup-automated-macos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Learn: Set up automated device enrollment (ADE) for macOS</a>.</p>",
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