Oliver Kieselbach
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The straggler integration test copied powershell.exe under a synthetic
agent name and launched it — textbook MITRE T1036.003 ("Rename Legitimate
Utilities"). Defender for Endpoint flagged the run ("System executable
renamed and launched", initiating process testhost.net48.exe) and ISOLATED
the dev machine.
Replaced with function shadowing: a harness script defines Get-Process /
Stop-Process stub functions (PowerShell resolves functions before cmdlets)
and dot-sources the cleanup script. The stubs report a live agent-named
straggler on every probe and record the kill, pinning the identical
contract — poll by NAME until the deadline, force-kill by NAME, then
delete — with zero process spawns, zero PE copies, nothing EDR-visible.
The production routine never renames or copies executables; the flagged
technique existed only in this test. Lesson recorded in tasks/lessons.md.
22/22 cleanup tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
AutopilotMonitor
Advanced monitoring and troubleshooting solution for Windows Autopilot deployments. Gain full visibility into every enrollment session with a detailed event timeline, fleet health dashboards, and session reporting. Define custom analysis rules to automatically detect issues and gather rules to collect targeted evidence. Retrieve diagnostics packages on demand, configure agent settings like auto-reboot behavior and automatic timezone adjustment — all managed centrally from the web dashboard.
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Overview
Autopilot Monitor provides real-time tracking, intelligent diagnostics, and automated troubleshooting for Windows Autopilot enrollment processes. It consists of:
- Bootstrap Script — PowerShell script deployed via Intune that starts monitoring early in the enrollment process
- Monitoring Agent — Lightweight .NET application that collects telemetry and evidence during enrollment
- Backend API — Azure Functions-based ingestion and processing pipeline
- Web Dashboard — Next.js application for real-time monitoring and fleet analytics
Architecture
For detailed information about the system architecture, components, and data flow, see Architecture Documentation.
Documentation
Full admin documentation is available at docs.autopilotmonitor.com
License
This project uses a split licensing model:
- MIT License — Agent (
src/Agent/) and Shared library (src/Shared/) — unrestricted use on end-user devices - AGPL-3.0 — Backend (
src/Backend/), Web Dashboard (src/Web/), and MCP Server (src/McpServer/) — server-side components remain open source
See LICENSE for full details.