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Zero-touch provisioning
Put this idea into your own words: "And no one in IT ever touched the machine."
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A new hire opens the box, powers on the laptop, signs in once and ten minutes later has every app, policy and access grant they need - and no one in IT ever touched the machine. That is the bar Cursor's loop will probe, because it is the difference between IT-as-engineering and IT-as-shipping-and-handling.
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The IdP sign-in is the gate: it fuses the device record and the access grants into one identity event instead of two reconciled tracks.
Zero-touch provisioning means the device configures itself on first boot by phoning home to your MDM, which knows who the device belongs to before it has even shipped. The manual alternative - imaging machines, hand-installing apps, walking a new hire through setup - does not survive a hypergrowth headcount curve with a tiny IT team. So this section is really about removing yourself from the critical pathThe longest end-to-end chain of dependent work in a plan; it sets the realistic timeline no matter how parallel everything else looks. A slip on the critical path moves the date; a slip on a task with slack does not. Press Enter for the full definition..