I'm really out of the loop on this, but in the past for Windows at least you could customize an image and use PXE to install it from the network. Then all the user had to do was login with a domain account.
Does that not work any more or is it just not popular ? Any insights as to why not ?
At least in the Apple world, my IT dept drop-ships MacBooks direct from Apple to employees, already enrolled in our MDM via their business partner program. Any additional software installations and provisioning happens after first boot via the MDM platform.
New hardware is never on a company campus or in IT hands where it could be pointed to a PXE server and imaged in that way (assuming we were running a Windows fleet too)
Does that not work any more or is it just not popular ? Any insights as to why not ?