Creating a local account after the fact and removing the MS account linked Windows account is another option. No need to mess with sysadmin tools for deploying Windows.

Microsoft really wants you to make a Microsoft account as part of installing Windows, but you don't have to. After it removed the "BypassNRO.cmd" method for skipping the account creation process ...

A new workaround that bypasses the Microsoft account requirement when setting up a Windows 11 PC has been discovered. This comes right after an old workaround was plugged by the company.