Joining Windows 11 Pro to Entra ID – Something Went Wrong

I’ve recently tried to join a Windows 11 Pro PC to Microsoft Entra ID and got the vague error:

“Something went wrong. Try again or select Cancel to set up your device later.”

What was happening

• The laptop was brand-new, running Windows 11 Pro.
• I entered the correct admin credentials for Entra ID.
• The join failed immediately, and no logs were created.
• Running dsregcmd /debug /join gave:

Cannot start Task: 0x80041326
 Failed to schedule Join Task

It seems that Windows was trying to run the Automatic-Device-Join scheduled task, but the task was disabled, so it couldn’t run.

Here is what I did to resolve the issue:

• In Task Scheduler, navigate to Microsoft > Windows > Workplace Join
• Right-click on Automatic-Device-Join > Enable
• Try to join Entra ID again

At this time, the join process completed successfully.

I’m not entirely sure of the exact cause of the issue – this task is normally disabled in new Windows installations, but I assume it gets automatically enabled by the Entra ID Join process (which was not happening in this particular case)…