How’s everyones win11 upgrade going?

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theweidy@reddit

We have about 400 employees globally and have most current devices on Win11 23H2. New autopilot devices have 24H2. Last stage of our HW refresh is in August to replace Win10 laptops that aren’t eligible for 11.

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pjmarcum@reddit

We’ve done roughly 100 a day. Down to under 500 of 5000. I wrote a PowerShell script and setup a self service process to allow users to start the upgrade at the end of their workday. It’s going really well.

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Gishky@reddit

Yep

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ImDOGGFATHER@reddit

I had some initial issues with file system issues after the in-place upgrade on several of the PC's in one of my environments. for this particular client they started having issues with outlook freezing and CPU being locked at 100% without any real explanation. Nothing in Event viewer, and a reboot would temporarily fix the issue until it would do the same an hour or two later. We eventually reloaded all of the PC with a fresh install and it started working normally

But to reel it back to not scare you, This is one client of like 70 PC's and I haven't had an issue with any of my other clients and I would say we've done 10k+ PC's since March last year.... So that's a good ratio

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Cl3v3landStmr@reddit

35K devices. ~88% migrated. Healthcare.

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Azadom@reddit

Wow. What would be my entire workload, for you is a barely a Tuesday

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Jordoh3@reddit

35k… I threw up in my mouth a little.

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i7n00b@reddit

More than that here in over 80 countries 😂 = brain fry

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OMGItsCheezWTF@reddit

I went for dental surgery last year and the computers there were all running XP. I almost threw up a little bit, too.

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fatalerror_tw@reddit

HIPPAA

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spittlbm@reddit

HIPAA doesn't specify what OS you can or can't use.

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OMGItsCheezWTF@reddit

... Doesn't exist outside of the us.

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Different-Help-6604@reddit

HIPPAA doesn't exist anywhere. Now for that HIPAA thing....

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NotRecognized@reddit

Nothing wrong with some closed off pc's.

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OMGItsCheezWTF@reddit

They had internet access at least, obviously I cannot know what their network setup was like.

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oyarasaX@reddit

we still have a few XP boxes connected directly to machinery and nothing else. They work fine, and will continue to work fine for a looong time, in this capacity.

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Cl3v3landStmr@reddit

I threw up in my mouth a little.

Why? You think that's a lot?

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Jordoh3@reddit

Compared to the 250 I have left… yeah that’s a lot.

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AuroraFireflash@reddit

Under 1000 left here. Supposedly they're going to trial and leverage AutoPilot / Intune to reduce touching each new machine as it comes in.

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Cl3v3landStmr@reddit

Oh, we only have ~4K left on Win10. 35K is the total number of client devices in our environment.

We'll probably have to buy ESUs for a "handful" of devices though.

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progenyofeniac@reddit

You just streamline your management when you have that many. You don’t look at them as Janice’s machine and Jeff’s machine, you see them as a few groups, rings, maybe departments, and you push policies and updates accordingly.

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spyhermit@reddit

You see the herd, not the cows. Above a general size, that's all we get to see. The front line helldesk boys get to care about the cows, and they get to know that person. The one who somehow computers just don't work for and every change is the end of their world, and somehow, that person can push back managing the herd by months on their own.

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JwCS8pjrh3QBWfL@reddit

Cattle not pets

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Frostywinkle@reddit

I’m working with 60K both in-person and WFH… lots of things I’ve never thought possible

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Independent_Yak_6273@reddit

what is your failure rate? there has to be some devices that need to be reimaged.

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Cl3v3landStmr@reddit

Unfortunately, we aren't really tracking failures (at least my team isn't). We have "boots on the ground" IT staff in the hospitals/facilities that handle device reimages/replacements if necessary and not much has filtered up regarding failures.

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bahusafoo@reddit

55k devices, we're about 88% last time I checked. Rolling out 23H2 and avoiding 24H2. Health Care system (hospitals, nurskng homes, clinics, Insurance plan also).

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popularTrash76@reddit

I feel you. K12 school system here. 47k devices. About 90% there. Summer will be the final push. Kill me.

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alerighi@reddit

Healtcare and you upgrade?? In my country it's not uncommon to see Windows XP computers in healtcare till this day (tough most of the time because of expensive machinery and software that is too expensive to replace), and Windows 7 is still everywhere.

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Cl3v3landStmr@reddit

Healtcare and you upgrade??

Yes. I get that it's not the norm, but we have leadership that understands IT is more than just a cost center.

It also helps when another healthcare system fairly close to you gets ransomwared, which shows what could happen if you don't.

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EarAggressive3756@reddit

I've updated the last three places I've worked at from 10 to 11 with minimal to no issues and got them 100% Intune. You're late to the game.

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bahusafoo@reddit

Push out 23H2 and you'll have a better time 😉

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CPAtech@reddit

That's what we're doing but its EOL in 5 months and I have zero expectation that Microsoft will get its shit together by then for 24H2.

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rra-netrix@reddit

We’ve been 100% migrated since 2023.

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lastcallhall@reddit

Group rollouts, address issues, more group rollouts, more issues to address...

It'll get done.

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SliceOk2325@reddit

Work in the govt, 20k devices, honestly smoother than expected, just a handful of issues here and there. To bring balance to the universe, pushing everbridge360 (notification software) triggered bitlocker recovery on like 1000 machines lol

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sam7oon@reddit

it's no longer supporting PEAP Auth without registery edit , so our WLAN connection is not working for a lot of our employees, this is basically how we knew that 11 does not support PEAP

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SeaVolume3325@reddit

Y'know we have some issues with our "secure wifi" not working once the machine is migrated to Win11. I'm now wondering if this is why..

If you have any more info registry edit etc. lmk!

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CTW1983@reddit

Yes, Credential Guard. Here is a copy of a comment I made on this issue.

In Windows 11 Enterprise, Microsoft has enabled Credential Guard by default, where as in Windows 10 and Windows 11 Professional it was disabled by default. Credential Guard prevents access to the Credential Manager on client computers from weaker authentication protocols such as MSCHAPv2. PEAP-EAP-MSCHAPv2 is what our RADIUS Server used when authenticating computers on our WiFi. Microsoft’s recommendation is to move towards a certificate-based authentication.

I have configured our RADIUS Server to use EAP-TLS that uses a certificate installed on computers that is issued by our CA, for authentication. This has been tested and is compatible on both Win 10 and 11 clients.

To prevent all existing old client configurations from losing access to the WiFi with the new RADIUS Server configuration, we will need to migrate users/computers in small manageable groups.

1. Determine group of users’ computers to migrate.
2. Add computers to AD group that is tied to new RADIUS configuration.
3. Remove old WiFi configuration from computer.
4. Add new WiFi configuration to computer.

References:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/credential-guard/considerations-known-issues https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/credential-guard/configure?tabs=intune https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/credential-guard/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/networking/certificate-requirements-eap-tls-peap https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/technologies/nps/nps-manage-top

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SeaVolume3325@reddit

Thank you very much!

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Odd_Quarter_799@reddit

It’s called credential guard:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/credential-guard/configure?tabs=intune#disable-credential-guard

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InvisibleTextArea@reddit

Yes this is Credential Guard. We switched our Wifi to EAP-TLS with certificates to solve this issue.

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ohioleprechaun@reddit

It's not that Win 11 does not support PEAP, but as /u/Odd_Quarter_799 said, it's Credential Guard. You could have run into the same issue if you had enabled Credential Guard on Win 10. Device Guard (and Credential Guard) are enabled by default on Win 11.

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jfarre20@reddit

0%, plan to hold off as long as I can. 288 11 compliant devices, we have sccm. Will probably just push it the week or two before EOL and have the team run around and check stuff.

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Atrium-Complex@reddit

98% there with a small shop of roughly 160\~ devices... no patch management to do it easily either.

Stragglers are aging/unsupported workstations and one or two holdouts screaming "AI is gonna kill us all" from the user perspective.

Arguing with leadership was simple though. Will it lose support? Yes. Will it cause vulnerabilities? Yes. Get it done.

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GeneMoody-Action1@reddit

At 160 devices why no patch management, you fit into free tiers of some.
And most will do this out of the box.

At 160 you are starting to scrape the edge of what will become cumbersome.
And the patch system will come with perks above just patching, it is a win win.

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Atrium-Complex@reddit

Not my first rodeo... Had patch management at my old job with 600+ devices.

My predecessor here wasn't exactly IT or thought of deployments at scale. Just did the minimum to suffice, which wasn't much. I recently acquired Atera but haven't spent the time to build out the patch management in it, since this also my company's first RMM

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stylezLP@reddit

W10 EOL has been known for a few years so we've been planning upgrades as a major project for this year. First set of asset upgrades has been completed with no issues. Should be completed by end of june.

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hewhodiedhascomeback@reddit

How did you deploy the operating system, sorry if this is a noob question but I have no idea what to do

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Windows95GOAT@reddit

All depends on your available logistics. In our case we counted on the Intune update ring to send upgrades but that messed up installs. So now we are doing the good old workbench method.

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YourTypicalDegen@reddit

Interesting, Intune worked flawlessly with our rollout of windows 11. There were rare, and I mean RARE instances of corruption after the upgrade. Maybe less than 10 for 10,000 devices.

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Windows95GOAT@reddit

I will say that we inherted this environment and the W10 installs are questionable at times.

But the few tests we did it took as much to troubleshoot as it takes us to handhold our least techie colleagues :)

We are also taking this chance to do a check of our labels and cmdb.

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YourTypicalDegen@reddit

I wonder if it’s something with the image that was being deployed? But who knows.

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hewhodiedhascomeback@reddit

You mean MDT by workbench?

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Windows95GOAT@reddit

Sorta, but we simply USB boot atm with an autounattended ISO. Everything else is managed through intune profiles.

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stylezLP@reddit

We use ManageEngine (Website: https://www.manageengine.com/ ) to manage patches (OS and software) and deployment to our assets.

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MC2402@reddit

Been on W11 for just over a year now, upgraded with Autopatch on Intune. 3k devices, literally not one ticket raised.

Rolling out 24h2 the same way now.

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TheShirtNinja@reddit

It's ... Going? Test group of 11 total devices have been updated with few challenges. Currently limited to IT users and manually initiated via Company Portal. We need to see wider impact but everyone is too scared a user may be slightly inconvenienced for upwards of 30 minutes or see new and scary prompts like "click OK to complete upgrade" or "would you like to restart now?".

We have just under 1000 devices. Finance.

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NakedCardboard@reddit

I have about 200 in the fleet that need to be upgraded from 10 to 11. We're just trying to identify which ones can do it and which ones cannot.

Does anyone know if there's a powershell script or something that will check for Win 11 compatibility?

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XtremeScrub@reddit

Same as you but we have about 350 that failed, some due to a partitioning problem and others being too old. Service desk is manually upgrading the ones with partition problem and others are told to upgrade PC since we have pretty old computers on avg.

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GhoastTypist@reddit

This is my 3rd refresh of OS. I have learned to plan 2 years out to migrate everyone to new systems that conveniently comes with the new OS. So when my budget teams go "oh we can't make this work this year, we'll do it next year" its right in line with the EoL timelines and we're not scrambling to get everyone upgraded before support ends.

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Warm-Reporter8965@reddit

Oh it's going. My seniors still refuse to integrate any type of UEM into our environment so I've either been meeting every staff individually to run the upgrade.

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Independent-Mine9907@reddit

Small company but we have been rolling out new devices with W11 for quite some time now, enough that we only have 30 odd devices to look at migrating from a fleet of about 180 and our latest laptop replacements will probably cover a few of those

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maralecas@reddit

We are using Intune, so everything has been smooth sailing tbh. I am pushing out 23H2, though, I don't have the balls to push out 24H2.

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VAsHachiRoku@reddit

Depending on what your company uses Intune and Windows Update for business can provide compatibility and readiness reports. There is also update compatibility tools.

Just be sure to use deployment rings.

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Chemical-Librarian93@reddit

Just started mine today.

Two computers at the site I'm visiting decided randomly that the planets aren't aligned or something. Everything else upgraded or replaced without issue.

Those two? I see they have their Intune policies. They're eligible. They're ready to roll. Don't wanna update because don't wanna. Fml

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averageuser7436@reddit

I've made severe progress in the past month, now I've gotta replace a bunch of tablets. Feeling good 👍🏻

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RithianYawgmoth@reddit

We’ve been doing it for 150 PCs since July last year just finished last month. Some hiccups but overall no issues that weren’t easily fixed

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junkytrunks@reddit

0%. 1200 PC’s. We will be paying for three years of E.S.U support from MS. This has already been budgeted for. Reason is the application vendor will not support Windows 11 without a full application upgrade. ESU is cheaper than an in-place upgrade.

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sysadmin-84499@reddit

B4 I left my job recently, we had 60 windows 10 devices left out of about 800. Started migrating 3 years ago.

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sysadmin-84499@reddit

I should add. There was no requirement to seek approval, I just did what I wanted.

I'm going to miss that job.

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QuiteFatty@reddit

lol. Direction from leadership. That must be nice.

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Imaginary_Fee_6228@reddit

For the first time in my 20+ year career I have an IT director who appreciates letting everyone work their lane and not interfering unless the smoke is flickering. I'm the SysAdmin of a three man team (other two are network engineer and help desk). I'm the only one with considerable professional experience and am single handedly merging their separate tenants from all their mergers into one and simultaneously migrating everyone to the cloud off the poorly hobbled together AWS server farm they lift and shifted after their last ransomware attack (state sponsored North Korea job apparently) about two months before I came aboard. I only service about 300 users altogether so not a major environment like some of you guys, but sometimes the automation that comes with bigger user base is missed. I'll likely never get that kind of automation until the AI overlords finally run me out of town. Cool to read y'all's experiences though.

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Kindly_Cow430@reddit

Yeah lack of Informed leadership where I am at is baffling.

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QuiteFatty@reddit

I basically spend my days arranging deck chairs on the Titanic and the captain is drunk.

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RoninIX@reddit

Our captain was drunk and deliberately ran us directly at the iceberg.

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QuiteFatty@reddit

Turns out we're co-workers.

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nsvxheIeuc3h2uddh3h1@reddit

Officer: "Iceberg, slightly off to Port!"

Captain: "I'll fix that...!"

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wonderbreadlofts@reddit

But do you have an orchestra?

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jesuiscanard@reddit

The orchestra was arranged by finance.

The tune was nice but the water was cold.

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kg7qin@reddit

You have a captain, a deck, and chairs? /s

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AffekeNommu@reddit

Our deck chairs are also drunk

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NoReallyLetsBeFriend@reddit

Last October, I sent an email to owners & leaders stating we have X amount of incompatible devices (either CPU model or TPM or both). I said in order to get complaint 12 months from now, we'll need to upgrade our replace about 2 devices a month at $XX cost.

I'm a 1-man show, last guy kept a bunch of old Win 7 hardware and pushed to 10, but didn't bump DDR3 or do SSDs. I told them 2 years ago I could buy them time via SSDs but new hardware will be required in the near future.

Being they were sort of aware, plus I told them well enough in advance about expense, and I found a good deal on some desktops around the holidays, I've legit only got 1 laptop left out of maybe 25ish devices.

I think I got lucky in that aspect bc I got one of the owners to green light it early on

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No_Pie_5935@reddit

You took the words out of my mouth

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deltashmelta@reddit

manage up.

🎶 Same as it ever was. 🎶

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scotty269@reddit

I was going to simply reply "lol" and saw your comment, so this is a reminder that you're not the only one laughing/crying.

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josephowens42@reddit

We have about 40 laptops out of about 750 still on W10, a few can be upgraded still, but the rest need to be replaced, so not bad. We however have about 300 laptops on W11 with only 8gb of ram, which isn’t great. We are upgrading the ram ones the ones we can get our hands on, but there are about 200 or so that are completely remote.

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KaptainKardboard@reddit

Luckily my leadership defers technical decision making to my best judgment, so I spent over a year testing Win11 and slowly deploying it to the more tech savvy users who might provide valuable input. Also spent time ensuring my devices all have at least 16 GB of RAM as that seems to be a comfortable minimum. That part is done.

I'm halfway through actually upgrading all of them but will have them completed before the end of summer.

PDQ has made the deployment nearly effortless.

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Evernight2025@reddit

We've been pretty much fully 11 for months now. No issues whatsoever.

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ZippyTheRoach@reddit

Yeah, we've been preparing for this for years.

Started testing everything in 11 back when it launched late '22 and generally speaking it all worked. Natural PC refreshes in '23 and '24 started pushing out 10 until late '24 when 10 became a minority. At that point we upgraded any 10s left that would take it.

There are exactly 9 machines left now. One is already replaced and it's just hanging around in case an esge case pops up. Another one is capable of upgrading but is the only punk who keeps failing the upgrade process. Four others legitimately can't run 11 and need replacement. The rest are PCs that departments claim they're using (but we all know they aren't) and are really just fighting downsizing. Those will just go.

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fuckedfinance@reddit

Fully 11 since the first big patch. No problems to speak of.

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BioshockEnthusiast@reddit

We have yet to come across a single piece of software that fails to meet the following criteria, including bullshit proprietary vendor nonsense:

works on win10
doesn't work on win11
has not been end of life for 5+ years

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19610taw3@reddit

We have one very old piece of software that we have been trying to get rid of for years. The department that uses it just wont give up on it.

Unfortunately for them, fortunately for us ... it just will not work in Windows 11. So it finally gets sunset.

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MrGreenzor@reddit

They will make you let the software run on an environment which is closed off of the internet. So they can still use it hehe

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upcboy@reddit

In my organization we have ran into 2-3 that do not work on windows 11. They exist, but each has an upgrade plan by end of summer to make them windows 11 capable. Either by replacing the software or upgrading it.

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ingo2020@reddit

Honestly the biggest issue with upgrading to windows 10 (with regards to software/apps) has been the need to update screenshots in all of our documentation

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Eraos_Free@reddit

This guy u/BioshockEnthusiast got angry cause he didn’t get a joke. He rages a lot look at his comment.

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uptimefordays@reddit

Windows 11 has been stable for years, what were people expecting?

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narcissisadmin@reddit

I'd love to be able to make it look like W10. LiteStep has been a thing for decades and here we are in 2025 having customization options limited.

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imbannedanyway69@reddit

Tell that to people still having problems with 24H2

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uptimefordays@reddit

I’ve got 300k endpoints running Windows 11, if it had significant problems I’d know about them.

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imbannedanyway69@reddit

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-24h2

Yup totally no issues

Keep in mind this is just the ones that Microsoft will admit to

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fadingcross@reddit

Oh yeah, Easy Anti Cheat the extremely critical business application.

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imbannedanyway69@reddit

Ah yeah take the one example that isn't a business machines problem, that must mean the upgrade had no issues at all!

God you idiots are fucking insufferable

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fadingcross@reddit

None of the bugs listed there are even remotely common.

All versions of an OS will have small compatibility issues.

If you don't want that, then Chromebook or MAC is literally built for that purpose but limit the hardware choices.

Also suggest you read what /u/uptimefordays said, especially the meaning of the word "siginificant"

We'll be less insufferable if you learn to read.

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BioshockEnthusiast@reddit

So run 23h2 and quit your bitching. This is the world we live in brother; deal with it, find a new line of work, or orchestrate a hostile takeover of MS and fix it your damn self.

Win11 is not more or less shitty in general than any other OS. They all suck, just in different ways.

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uptimefordays@reddit

I don’t understand the OS update/upgrade hate, especially among technologists—we chose to be here! Each and every one of us knew, walking into this career, operating systems change every couple years. A central professional requirement of ours is “upgrade operating systems as required in a timely manner,” those who haven’t started their Windows 11 migrations are negligent.

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zyeborm@reddit

Change is fine, but it's meant to be for the better. Not just change for the sake of it or to increase Microsoft's profits by forcing more rental rather than ownership.

Note I said meant to be

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Ok-Juggernaut-4698@reddit

That's funny. I never paid to upgrade to W10 and I'm updating my entire fleet to W11 at no cost as well.

What's this money grab you're complaining about?

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zyeborm@reddit

How much are you paying Microsoft every month?

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Ok-Juggernaut-4698@reddit

For windows 11? Nothing.

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zyeborm@reddit

That qualifier you made is the point I was making. Thankyou for making it.

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Ok-Juggernaut-4698@reddit

If you think your question is some tricky gotcha, it isn't, especially after moving the goal posts when your original claim was that "OS upgrades are a money grab"

On an enterprise level, we have always been paying Microsoft something. Server, software versions of office, exchange, AND OS upgrades. We paid for windows 95, XP, 7, and 8.1 - windows 10 is the first OS that didn't cost us to upgrade to.

That method of income has just shifted. An organization can spend as little or as much as they wish for the products, but the OS upgrade isn't dependent on that.

I was able to do multiple upgrades to W10 to W11 at home for free and I'm not a consumer of any Microsoft products.

If you want to complain about product licencing, that's a different story, but as for OS upgrades, they haven't cost in a while now.

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uptimefordays@reddit

The MS Office subscription model has nothing to do with OS updates which used to cost money but are now free for everyone, for the most part. While I get the frustration of monthly licensing costs over one time, the beef here is “Windows version updates” which is a well established, longstanding, problem for Windows people. Every major version rolls around to the same song and dance about “new version sucks, old version I hated in release is the pinnacle of human achievement” and tunes change as adoption finally spreads until the cycle begins anew.

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zyeborm@reddit

Eh kinda, it used to be every other windows release was decent. Like yeah a little hassle sometimes but it was worth it. The last few, not so much. 95 bad, 98/98se was good, me was bad, xp good, Vista bad, 7 good 8 bad, 10.... Ok eventually but didn't really bring much new hotness over 7, 11 still irritating

"Free" upgrades to a less useful, harder to use more controlling operating system that tries to wed you to the vendors subscription ecosystem isn't that great an outcome.

Windows 2000 was delightful except for games btw lol.

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uptimefordays@reddit

I’ve used every version of Windows since 3.1 and have never understood Windows people’s obsession with hating the newest version of their chosen platform. No offense but I have serious doubts most “new Windows bad” people could identify major features or which versions introduced them, let alone explain their benefits or purpose, or drawbacks. It’s just vapid complaints about change from people who don’t understand how memory allocation works.

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jesuiscanard@reddit

*cough

I pointed out and have emails regarding the required upgrades since July. With a fully coated plan staggering the cost until September this year.

Management didn't like the cost.

Judging by news events, they really won't like the cost soon.

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Nietechz@reddit

Bro, are you a bot?

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BioshockEnthusiast@reddit

I understand it, the lack of consistency can be really aggravating.

That said, I agree with you. This is what we signed up for. I wasn't trying to be a huge dick with my comment. I'm just trying to take the world I'm forced to live in as it is, and recognize that while any small improvements to it I can make are worthwhile... they are in fact small.

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uptimefordays@reddit

Gonna be honest I don’t think you were being a dick. I know software can be buggy but it’s our job to patch systems anyway. So many easily avoided cybersecurity incidents are a result of some jackass who hates change deferring updates. The organization where I started my career folded after a cybersecurity incident because they didn’t force people off 7 after EoL. Naturally the same people who didn’t understand the importance of security updates also didn’t have antivirus or EDR either… but around 2000 people lost their jobs because one guy “didn’t believe in patching.”

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imbannedanyway69@reddit

Holy hell what crazy hostility just because you were proven wrong. You must be a saint to work with.

We had devices upgrade to 24H2 by themselves so it was out of our control and we had to figure out a solution as to why NICs would lose their IP addresses, printers stopped working etc

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BioshockEnthusiast@reddit

I didn't mean to come off that way, but we gotta be real here, Microsoft isn't going to listen to us. They've heard what we had to say and they don't give a shit, at all. Someone decided that every windows machine is going to be cloud connected by whatever date and damn the consequences.

Technology presents challenges for a lot of reasons. Some of those reasons are math and some of them are ass clowns who weaseled their way into decision making positions they have no business occupying. The only decision left for us, in a metaphorical sense, is to figure out a way to overcome those challenges regardless of their source. It's either that or leave.

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Eraos_Free@reddit

Damn you’re angry in every subreddit huh? Lol

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qlz19@reddit

Cheebus Crisp, are you this angry all the time…?

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uptimefordays@reddit

At some level, it's like issues with public cloud platforms--it's much easier telling decision-makers "all customers globally impacted" as opposed to "it's a localized problem with our platforms."

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canyonero7@reddit

Are you still using NTLM? Because 24H2 has a bad bug causing fallback to NTLM & it caused us massive problems. We rolled back to 23H2, which has been very solid for us.

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uptimefordays@reddit

Not broadly, NTLM is an insecure legacy authentication protocol--where possible I don't want folks falling back on insecure protocols. Are there some things that still need NTLM? Yes. But am I willing to accept widespread DES or MD5 encryption? Not unless it's reliably encapsulated in something secure.

In 2025, if 3rd party devices don't support secure authentication--it's time to replace them or isolate them if replacement isn't feasible.

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canyonero7@reddit

Our specific problem was that we are migrating to a newer Citrix setup that is be 100% Kerberos with NTLM fully blocked. All 24H2 clients were falling back to NTLM, which rendered them unusable in our "new world" (thankfully the old farm is still up so we temporarily redirected the clients there). That's what caused us to roll everything back to 23H2, because Kerberos works perfectly there with Remote Credential Guard and the double-hop scenario of accessing file shares inside the Citrix session.

Microsoft claims they'll fix it "this fall" so we'll be on 23H2 until they do.

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bfodder@reddit

Setting the lanmancompatibilitylevel policy to not allow ntlm didn't work?

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canyonero7@reddit

For non-Citrix things, yes. But we put up a new farm with new policies to replace the Citrix ssonsvr component (which MITMs windows creds & passes then through) in favor of the new end-to-end Kerberos setup. The whole setup was designed to NOT use NTLM under any circumstances and we weren't willing to break it all to accommodate Microsoft's screw-up. Most of our endpoints were still on 23H2 so rolling back the 24H2s was the least painful resolution for us.

btw on the subject of IT vendors, Citrix claimed the kerberos passthrough worked in 2402, which it most definitely did not, and support had zero clue about how it even worked. It works great in 2407 though. They all suck.

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canyonero7@reddit

Sorry I realized I misunderstood your question. The issue is related to RCG, which Microsoft broke, so it falls back to NTLM. Disallowing ntlm doesn't force it to stay with kerberos. It just makes it not work at all.

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uptimefordays@reddit

Wow, that's awesome in all the worst ways, we're not a Citrix shop so we seem to have dodged a bullet.

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Pazuuuzu@reddit

Lol I wish...

Some of our stuff is not running/crashing on Win11 for whatever reason... Generally it's fine, but for some industry specific stuff, not good...

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uptimefordays@reddit

Sure there may be some specialty boxes that don’t work, but for fleet endpoints? They should absolutely work without issue on Windows 11.

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NightFire45@reddit

Same, same. Pushed through WSUS.

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Ok-Juggernaut-4698@reddit

Same here. Wasn't much of a pain other than getting people to reboot.

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singlejeff@reddit

It was a phased upgrade but yeah, everybody is on 11 now.

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UncleToyBox@reddit

Retired our final W10 machine in October.

Am curious what it's going to be like buying machines on Cyber Monday this year. What will the delta be between increased production from manufacturing and consumer demand to replace machines?

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varble@reddit

Headset compatibility is garbage, otherwise 11 is ok

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Akamiso29@reddit

Yup. I did it last year, but I have a much smaller fleet compared to most people here (under 150 devices).

Turning off the GPO blocking 11 and asking people to do it when they had time worked for about 85%. The rest I mostly got with PC update cycles and then one or two people needed help from us to do it.

Wasn’t bad at all - only one in-place went sideways and it was a simple fix.

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stking1984@reddit

Finance industry. We keep our machines in a 4yr cycle of extended hardware warranty and once warranty is up device is retired. So no TPM issues and we are all class 35 nvme with 16gb ram and above. Win 11 upgrade is going ok but I can’t enable device guard due to old legacy drivers for legacy hardware. I’m shocked I didn’t have an issue upgrading to win 11 because of it.

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ronmanfl@reddit

About 20% through 40k endpoints. We do a 3-4 year refresh cycle so it’s not too bad. All of IT has been converted since February.

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HighOnDye@reddit

Non-Windows admin here:
What are the big challenges of such a Windows-upgrade when you do it in a professional way and for large sites?
I assume you are not running from machine to machine with a Win11 USB-Stick and click yourself through the installation and configuration.
How far can it be automated?
And once it's automated and you ensured that all types of machines (servers, desktops, laptops, customer terminals) work with the new setup ... is it then just kick off the upgrade / new installation and watch the machines churn through the installation steps?

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NorthernVenomFang@reddit

K-12 education; have roughly 500 machines.

Been deploying Windows 11 for over a year on all new builds.

Techs have been floating around upgrading what they can with and grabbing inventory what can not be upgraded for replacements (should have that by end of the week).

Rough guess 30-50% of our fleet has already been upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11. The couple windows labs and windows laptop carts are going to be our problem points come August.

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Gloverboy6@reddit

I have no idea why, but my company only started building a Win11 image within the last couple of months. I foresee problems being that our newest PCs only have 8 gigs of RAM too

I just work here though

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J0LlymAnGinA@reddit

Small org, about 200 machines. We're at about 60% at this point if I had to guess? We're just using it as an opportunity to give people freshly imaged machines that hopefully are less buggy than the years-old installs of Windows 10 that they're running.

The most annoying part has been trying to convince users to save stuff to OneDrive and not their desktop lol. I just swapped out a laptop for a user who was storing ALL of her files (including sensitive non work related files!) in her downloads folder for four years. That took a while to copy over lol.

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bigfootisreal52@reddit

You didn’t do this yet??

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M0rdwyn@reddit

1100 devices. 1070 devices capable, 30 being replaced currently with newer models. As part of the upg we're migrating from sccm managed hybrid joined to intune and autopilot hybrid joined. Our firm provides a pretty white-glove services (law firm) so the migration has been a lot of work and a LOT of testing. We've almost finished moving everyone over to WUfB rings, autopilot image 95% complete and in testing, pilot for win11 just about finished, migration of thousands gpos to intune done.. once everyone is over to update rings and win11 testing is signed off… we're upgrading in a big-bang approach. Autopilot enablement is last on the list and I've built an interim win11 TS in sccm to use until autopilot golive sometimes later this year. Been a MASSIVE project all up.should have all devices over to 11 by late July.

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SOUTHPAWMIKE@reddit

We're operating under the expectation that we both finish the upgrade as quickly as possible, but also do it in a way so that nobody notices anything different other than subtle changes in the UI. Oh, and management decided we'd also be transitioning our primary MS365 domain at the same time, "so we only have to rip that band-aid off once." It's not a huge amount of users and devices, but the tolerance for "growing pains" is non-existent.

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TheseNewtz@reddit

It's shit so far. 24H2 is breaking TWAIN drivers. 80% of our clients use TWAIN for scanners in Dr offices. We're having to reimage to 23H2 for new PCs that won't upgrade. We have over 1200 endpoints to replace. 800 to upgrade - 300 which need TPM turned on. Great OT and travel / mileage though!

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looney417@reddit

Windows 11 Enterprise wifi ain't gonna work without a few tweaks

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PurpleAd3935@reddit

I finished my site as the first one 🥇 in the company.

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bianko80@reddit

We have experienced some Office 2016 activation breaking after a successful upgrade to 11. Has anyone else experienced this behavior?

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Jake2099@reddit

Got 1 device left out of 12k+. Hate me if you must 😊

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GeneMoody-Action1@reddit

C-suite is seeing the need because they watch the news. But any admin not already preparing for this is behind. Yes you can pop that bubble and no they will not quit working the day they go EOS. But if you do not have time to get this done before this happens, then it is highly unlikely you will fare well in the need that it will cause to MAKE it happen.

Updating is not hard, run reports ahead of time to determine known no go, update the rest in progressively larger rings. Unless your systems are damaged or configured in a way that prevents clean upgrade, it is largely painless. Most the noise around it is the failure to research comply, not failure of systems upgrading.

I fired off 400 in one day and had NO tickets as a result relating to actual upgrade failure, (Plenty that did not read the multiple alerts this day was coming, but that's a constant not an upgrade problem)

Past that, IT is like the military, soldiers do not loose battles, commanders do. If you are being the good soldier, passing proper intel up the food chain, and the orders do not come back down, this is NOT an IT failure.

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Alone-Breadfruit5761@reddit

💩 there does that explain?

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upcboy@reddit

We are about 2/3rds done. We started all new builds/reimages on windows 11 Jan 2024. We have found 1 or 2 applications that don’t work on windows 11 and those have active projects to upgrade the software to a version that is supported.

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disposeable1200@reddit

Rebuilds?

Nah in place upgrade

All our kit was built on 10 as a minimum so it just works fine

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canyonero7@reddit

What about TPM? We have some Surface Laptops that won't take Win 11.

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disposeable1200@reddit

We never bought surfaces

Hardware quality is abysmal on the first 5 generations

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canyonero7@reddit

The "Laptop" ones have been solid since the 3. Had a bunch of battery swelling problems with the 2s.

I agree on the Surface Pros. My CFO has a 7 & loves it but it took them a long time to get that right.

I have a Surface Pro X (ARM64) as a travel device & it's been solid on Win11. I don't ask much of it though - mostly VPN + RDP into servers.

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Mr_Chode_Shaver@reddit

Must be nice. We were running 75% 4th gen i5 desktops with spinning disks.

They’re glorified thin terminals at this point.

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disposeable1200@reddit

We don't keep stuff beyond 5 or 6 years - it's just going to break constantly at that age

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Mr_Chode_Shaver@reddit

They really don’t though. Taking numbers, 822 of the 850 machines purchased in 2014 were still intact and running as of last November. Even in heavy mechanic shop and production floor environments.

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Nomaddo@reddit

Our PCs are basically thin terminals as well. I've got a Core 2 Duo somewhere out there. Trying to get approval to refresh the devices that aren't Windows 11 compatible.

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Stonewalled9999@reddit

My P223MMX running 23 million $ moulding machine farts in your general direction.

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tylerderped@reddit

My boss says “in place upgrades bring forth all the issues that existed before”

Whatever the fuck that means.

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disposeable1200@reddit

Maybe back like Win 7 to 10, or early days of 10 to 10 in like 2017.

Since 2020ish? Nah no issues

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tylerderped@reddit

Yeah he’s a boomer, so.

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disposeable1200@reddit

I had the same sort of boss at one point

He was 2000 / 2003 era when he was an engineer so very old knowledge compared to now - in the end we just said look, let's test it

We'll do these 10 your way, these 10 my way and see what we find.

Conclusion was my way was 200% quicker and didn't cause issues so he rolled over and let us crack on

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tylerderped@reddit

Yeah, dude is smart, the problem is his knowledge is a solid 15-20 years outdated, especially regarding cybersecurity. Not that I’m a cybersecurity expert, but he’s a straight moron compared to me lol

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Zamphyr-@reddit

just crossed 50% done, about 600 to go

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rosseloh@reddit

Still working on getting the unsupported hardware out of the environment. I've only got a few left, though.

Once that's done, then maybe I can get everyone who has proper hardware upgraded.

It will not be done by the time it goes out of support. I can guarantee that. God I wish I had something like WSUS running here....

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marcoshid@reddit

Luckily I only have ~20 windows 10 machines and I'm trying to get them replaced. I have a few that connect to medical equipment that only approved on win 10, that will be the interesting ones.

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satchentaters696@reddit

Almost done—just the last group left, but they tend to shut down their devices after hours and rarely check their emails.

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joshtaco@reddit

11,000 workstation - 96% upgraded. The remaining Win10 PCs can't be in-place upgraded and are slowly being replaced entirely. I'm sure the remaining 400 won't all be replaced by October, but it'll be close. It's resembling the Win7>Win10 replacement timeline honestly.

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Sudden_Office8710@reddit

Yeah mass migration to Linux Mint 🤣

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Gefudruh@reddit

I work for an MSP, so I can only advise on what the client should do. They are completely ignoring any requests to do a large scale upgrade to 11 because a lot of their hardware would need to be replaced. I know there are workarounds to the system requirements, but I very much doubt they would go for it.

I can't wait to see how this eventually blows up.

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GoodTofuFriday@reddit

I completed this last year along with any needed pc upgrades.

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Otherwise-broken@reddit

Rushed.

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drc84@reddit

HAH!!! Hahaaa ha

Aaaaaaaahahahaa

-_-

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Speed-Tyr@reddit

I am at a small org. But I did this last year. But I keep our org off 24h2 until it isn't a constant shit show from Microsoft.

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Bijorak@reddit

i was done about 1.5 years ago

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B3392O@reddit

Many clients are nonprofits; first responders, aid for those with disabilities, etc. We went out the notification for Win11 early last year. A few upgraded their machines that had noncompliant hardware last year straight away. They're fine.

However, a few made the decision to wait until this fiscal year, including one with a fleet of 60 or so 6th gen i7s, who are screwed. Each of the respective org's directors has the same story. Funding cut, staff laid off, no budget this fiscal year and no improvement expected in the next. Their budgets weren't huge to begin with or anything but things are bad for them. Going to try to get them on the ESU for 1 year.

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Fake_Cakeday@reddit

Started in October or September with the administrative tenant and we started the schools middle of last week.

90+% on the adm. Side and haven't checked on the schools yet since I know they're just doing their windows autopatch thing.

There is something annoying about having to rely on Windows autopatch to manage it through Windows Update. It is so tediously slow.

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pointlessone@reddit

1 last device to migrate: Mine. I have a valid reason. I pack bonded with my little war machine over half a decade of being in the trenches and can't just let it go.

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MidninBR@reddit

It’s ok, deploy 23H2.

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randomman87@reddit

24H2 is fine now.

I'm pretty sure. We're rolling it out so...

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Rawme9@reddit

We are fully on 24H2 now, it has been fine outside of a few quirks.

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Booshur@reddit

Have you done testing? 24H2 breaks a lot of things. Trust me Ive lived it . Biggest thing I've found if you use a lot of scripts is wmi going away. Any scripts which query wmi for anything need replacing. Otherwise expect driver and especially printer issues.

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MagickBunny@reddit

I absolutely agree. 24H2 broke our printer drivers and consistently gives us other issues. 23H2 seems more stable.

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Ok-Juggernaut-4698@reddit

Sounds like the scripts haven't been updated in a while.

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randomman87@reddit

Yes. It's passed IT testing and we're about to pilot with business users. Lol. WMI is not going away, the WMI PoSh cmdletd are being retired. You can still query WMI with the CIM cmdlets (as WMI is based on CIM).

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Booshur@reddit

Yea sorry lol. I typed that quickly. Appreciate the correction. Rewriting the scripts to use powershell wmi queries probably felt like wmi was going away.

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ompster@reddit

He meant wmi.exe is gone. So if you have older scripts that don't use the cmdlets, you'll get errors

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jrodsf@reddit

WMI is most definitely *not* going anywhere. It is core functionality in the OS.

The WMIC utility is deprecated and removed. You can still (and should have been for a while now) use powershell cmdlets to access WMI.

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MidninBR@reddit

Yeah, I had a bad experience a while ago but I’ve been using it again and it’s all fixed. Although my organization moved to AAD only now, the problems I had were related to on-prem stuff.

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cor315@reddit

We've been having issues with some excel 2016 files not opening. But that won't be an issue in a few months anyways lol.

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FarToe1@reddit

24h2 breaks samba networking at guest level (shouldn't be a problem for work, but is at home). Fixable with pwsh

It's also broken my keyboard delay. Used to be able to regedit and reduce time-to-repeat below 1s, now that's not working and the sliders are far too long.

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jrodsf@reddit

They just barely fixed applocker script enforcement with the May cumulative. I've not had a chance to see if our scanner problem has been resolved on 24H2.

I'd say the jury is still out on whether its "fine".

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Adium@reddit

Oh you poor thing.

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jhulbe@reddit

Wait, what's wrong with 24H2?

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BwanaPC@reddit

We've identical Latitudes lose activation, fail printing because secure printing is broken.

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simmonsmw@reddit

Broken secure printing

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ImClever-NotSmart@reddit

I’ve had a few machines lose their activation as well. That’s been a fun issue.

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eater-of-a-million@reddit

It's a complete shitshow.

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Adium@reddit

Besides the ones Microsoft will admit too? Everything.

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imbannedanyway69@reddit

Everyone here saying 11 is fine hasn't upgraded to 24H2

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0RGASMIK@reddit

It’s fine depending on what device you use.

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Popensquat01@reddit

I’ve been testing it on a few of our machines in a local state government office. No issues for us either.

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carrotmage@reddit

23h2 is eol in October as well so you definitely want to use 24h2 if you’re just starting now

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johnjohnjohn87@reddit

Works great. Used WUfB for upgrading. Reporting is better than it used to be but not great.

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Rawme9@reddit

We finished all migration last year, but we also only have like 250 endpoints

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mafia_don@reddit

I have like 50 devices in my environment. Putting it off til the very last minute haha

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op8040@reddit

I just set up an MDT sequence last week. I'm behind the curve.

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thewaytonever@reddit

We have 2 locations going so 50% of the way there. The real bitch was converting Group Policy into InTune policies. Users hate it (of course they would it's different), but overall it's fine. A touch slower to me, but I'm glad my admin laptop isn't win 11 so I don't have to live with it.

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Pr0t0n632@reddit

Haha. Major car dealership. 2k devices and one severely broken deployment package.

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RNG_HatesMe@reddit

I'm at a large research University, we knew this was going to be a shit show, because we have lots of systems running lab instrumentation and what not.

We started targeted messaging about affected system in February 2024, breaking affected systems into 4 groups:

already at Win 11 and supported
On Windows 10 but upgradeable
On Windows 10 and NOT upgradeable
On Windows 11 but not supported (this was a very small group)

We didn't even mention group 1, since these were fine.

Group 2 we proactively scheduled upgrades when convenient for the end users. The hardest systems here were laptops that were not used that often (mostly for traveling). Most of these we've handled, but have a small number who have still not responded.

Group 3 was likely the biggest challenge, since some of those systems were operating research instrumentation (think Mass Spectrometers, Liquid Chromatographs, etc.) that cost 1/4 million dollars or more when purchased. We gave them 3 options: 1) replace the computer with something up to date (providing the controlling software was compatible), 2) develop a risk mitigation plan for the system (which would likely involve moving it offline), or 3) retire the entire system. We're still dealing with a number of groups who are trying to ignore the problem.

Group 4 was a small number of systems that we dealt with on a case by case basis.

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_haha_oh_wow_@reddit

OK-ish, but there's a couple weird ass custom setups that are gonna suck.

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meatwad75892@reddit

We've been doing it by attrition since Windows 11 launched. (new installs & break-fix reinstalls)

2,492 on Windows 11

1,072 on Windows 10

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metalblessing@reddit

Working for a local ortho clinic and we have about 800 devices with an IT team of 2. We have not yet convinced our CEO to get on a 4 year refresh but only piecemeal, so we have some new micros, but also alot of old full size optiplexes. Due to budget not allowing an across the board replacement we are making ends meet for compliance...and that means replacing HDDs with SSDs and upping RAM where needed.

As far as CPU models, we are opting to replace PCs with i3 and lower, and any i5's that are a generation or two below the requirement we are hacking the Win11 ISO to remove bypass the requirements.

This way we can gain compliance in the interim until budget allows us to actually replace.

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ceantuco@reddit

started June 2024... I should be done by July or August then off to Exchange Online in September lol

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babyhuey1978@reddit

Don’t get me started. Work for a uni that the IT director doesn’t dictate to the desktop managers to do this or that. And we (desktop engineers) get raked over the coals.

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SG-3379@reddit

I have a really dumb question couldn't you just automatically upgrade all your machines that are registered to intune or use a pxe/wsus server ( after testing all the application/ service that run in a sandbox of course) why manually upgrade them

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yepperoniP@reddit

The place I'm at seems a bit unorganized and is having everyone swap to a loaner laptop, then doing a full re-image of their existing one, then swapping back, despite the laptops being near the end of their lifecycle and are highly likely to be upgraded before October 2025. Loads of extra work for us but I don't make the decisions on this.

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st8ofeuphoriia@reddit

1k devices. ~ 99% migrated. Manufacturing.

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Kathryn_Cadbury@reddit

Around 4k devices, HE, we should be done by Sept. It's currently rolled out to all new joiners and test groups in each department/faculty to make sure we haven't missed anything pre mass deployment. We already have a room on campus set up with multiple bays for drop ins, with teams visiting each department in run upgrades on campus whilst they work.

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AdWerd1981@reddit

We are replacing a good number of devices, including reshuffling some people from desktop to laptops to aid in their hybrid working. Most are taking to it well, but those that will find it hard we haven't got around to yet - probably streamlining the setup before we get to them. Users here won't get a choice - it's either Win11 or typewriter :D

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CantFindaPS5@reddit

No issues besides that weird wifi glitch that seems to have been patched. We haven't heard about that issue again.

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basec0m@reddit

Been working on it for about a year... have 17 left

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Deifler@reddit

Basically done, just a few stragglers and laptops left to die in drawers. It has been great for inventory going through all the devices.

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Ok-Juggernaut-4698@reddit

Most machines have been migrated over, many did it automatically when we pushed the update.

Hasn't really been a big issue. Local printer management seems to be the worst hit.

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Sufficient-Class-321@reddit

Small business here, as soon as I heard Win 10 was going EOL my first port of call with any issues with a device is check if it's Win 11 compatible, if not then why waste time troubleshooting - just get it replaced with a new device that can run Win 11

Naturally I did get the 'why are we buying so many new laptops?' conversation from leadership, but ultimately they'll need to be replaced anyway - better to spread the cost over a year or so for most of them than ask finance for enough money to replace 100 laptops in one go later this year!

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caustic_banana@reddit

I've been dragging my leadership kicking and screaming through meetings about this for 18 months and we finally started the rollout for it at the beginning of May.

Everyone knew we had to do this, and has always known we have to do this, as once support ends we will fail all of the audits our business depends on. Even in spite of that, I have faced nothing but resistance and push-back every single step of the way from the entire organization, as well as all 46 of my immediate co-workers save for our MDM guy.

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hankhillnsfw@reddit

Following the trend, you mean staying on a supported OS? Lmao.

I mean our roll out is going. It fucking sucks. We are using Intune for it and it’s going very smooth.

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Windows95GOAT@reddit

Education: About 69% there. Biggest issue atm is nationwide exams which put everything on hold for now.

We also found that inplace upgrading caused more issues than it saved us so we go with clean installs.

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mini4x@reddit

Probably 1/3 of the way in, we had a huge issue with the 11 upgrade not working due to some bug in the installer that wouldn't suspend BitLocker right and then of course fail. That has been fixed and we have working in-place upgrades, plus a portion of folks getting new PCs, we haven't deployed a new Win 10 system in months.

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Techguyyyyy@reddit

We are forgoing the win 11 project this year and instead going to pay for extended licensing for 1 year. We have the win 11 project slated for early 2026.

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pidgeottOP@reddit

We e been deploying 11 exclusively for about a year now in New devices.

Been working through updates via intune for a couple of months

Only blocker is those damn users not wanting to upgrade until the last second because change is scary

As an IT professional I'm infinitely annoyed at windows 11 and how it hides important settings deeper in the OS, but as a general user it's fine and the hubub is entirely unnecessary

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DaemosDaen@reddit

2 VMs left on system that don't have TPM I'm just gonna isolate them from all but a few connections. (No internet for joo.)

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Sudden-Pangolin6445@reddit

I have 3 units left. All are Gen 7 Intel. And apparently we don't have funding to replace. We shall see!

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ZAFJB@reddit

I have 3 units left.

All are Gen 7 Intel.

Does not compute.

You have all of you machines to do.

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Realistic-Nature9083@reddit

,7th gen Intel isn't supported on windows 11

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Sudden-Pangolin6445@reddit

Yes, correct. That's why I said "we'll see."

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HappyM0M@reddit

I knew what you meant. I work for an MSP who supports a lot of non-profits, and some have reduced funding due to administration changes, so their IT budgets are REALLY tight.

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Sudden-Pangolin6445@reddit

I work for a state in a budget crunch, so kinda similar. Somebody downvoted me tho, so I should have apparently been more clear. Oh well. I'm so torn up over that karma loss.

Have a good week!

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ZAFJB@reddit

Lots of laptops already running Win 11.

About 20 laptops - rebuild. No in-place upgrades.

Probably about 15 addition unsupported laptops to replace

90 thin clients - new replacements because our current NUCs don support Windows 10.

Busy setting up an automated build factory. We aim to build and deploy about 5 a day, so 25ish working days. That takes us to mid or late July to be done depending how much BAU stuff gets in the way.

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TekSnafu@reddit

I just finished ours last week. I only had 2 that gave issues and needed to be wiped.

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Ark161@reddit

I have been trying to do it for months, but the same people demanding I do it are also giving into users who say they dont want to...so....between a rock and a hard place at the moment. About to pull a "damn, I guess my collection didnt omit the machines it was supposed to...that's craaaaaazy."

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nighthawke75@reddit

It's a business you are operating. Speak with management. Make it clear you are not going to nickle and dime this deployment. It's all or none, now.

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Ark161@reddit

I am in agreement with you, however they are more concerned with optics than lifecycle or operational standards. It is also why I have had a hell of a time getting proper rings put together...becasue people complain and dont like the timeframes and suddenly, "well we have to collaborate with the business"....

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nighthawke75@reddit

If there was advanced notice, they should have had sufficient time to schedule it. If not then it's a management issue because they are not organized sufficiently. Now they are going to work you in. Include at least 3 hrs leeway if things go sideways.

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Ark161@reddit

Oh it is 100% failure on leadership side; absolutely. I don’t see this as my shortcoming, just more political bullshit. Again, I get paid decent and my word holds more weight than it should most of the time. So I have made my recommendations, asked them to provide a suitable time/schedule, and I will make it happen. If they want me to do it, which is what it typically comes down to, I will get it done the way I see appropriate.

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wwbubba0069@reddit

Our laptops are good, desktops not so much. Any of them that can, is on 11. I keep going and asking for funds with my list needed to replace incompatible desktops, I keep getting pushed to the end of the line due other needed spends on the manufacturing side.

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Lando_uk@reddit

Education customers pay $1 for the first year of ESUs, $2 for the second, and $4 for the third year.

That's plan B.

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wes1007@reddit

started last year. all but 3 laptops (waiting for replacement hardware) and 4 desktops have been replaced.

1 machine i cant upgrade till we sort out a migration to a new app to replace the well out of support & development app. was hoping to do it when the staff member who uses it retired, and the replacement took over, but the replacement staff member quit a few weeks back...

spent about 4 months last year testing. 3 weeks reimaging 150 machines as i ran into some issues i didnt catch in testing. we went straight to 24h2... it has been mostly fine now

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nascentt@reddit

Going fairly well. About halfway through.
Been building Win11 desktops since last year.
And I've automated the upgrade process for existing win10 desktops, I've been going through the more complicated ones that weren't efi or gpt. And for the rest we can automate the upgrades during patch cycles.
For some reason our security team manage our windows patching (but not Linux) so I have to effectively hand over to them for the remaining bulk of hours, but if and when they fail to do things in time and decide to tell me to manually upgrade them in hours instead the only struggle will be the scheduling of the task.

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dickydotexe@reddit

We just started ours and it started off horrible, for some reason our sentinel one was blocking it however only half way through the install and no alerts or anything. So had to turn off the agent then all was going well after that.

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6ArtemisFowl9@reddit

We're about to send mandatory upgrade to our last units. Been a rocky road since for some reason after the upgrade the laptops wouldn't connect our office wifi. One gpupdate later and it's all good, but it created a lot of visits to support.

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Nacke@reddit

I am working as an technician/consultant at an MSP so I have several customers where I work as their IT Consultant. Let's just say it is not going so well. I made everyone aware a year ago, and at some places we have rolled out new computers slowly replacing the old ones. But most people just dont want to prioritize. So I know I will be stuck with a bunch of window 10s on some places.

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blyatspinat@reddit

did hundreds of these, easy, no issues.

and more often then i wanted migrated from hdd/ssd to nvme and needed to do mbr2gpt, but that was also not an issue.

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HellDuke@reddit

About 98% of all of our devices have been upgraded, at least those that support Win11. The remaining couple of thousand devices are going to be replaced over the rest of the year. There are some teams that are a bit of a problem because we deal with clients that are not approving us to upgrade to Win11 yet (since we interact with their systems we have to adhere to their demands) but that is a fairly small subset. I do know a few clients where the devices are on their domains so we are not pushing them, it's their problem really, we will just facilitate the upgrade once they ask for it, it's their IT team responsibility to plan for downtimes, we just told them we were doing our side and asked if they have plans, which they did not (fairly big companies too)

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Key-Pace2960@reddit

Was going great, we were pretty much all done apart from non compatible PCs that we were gonna slowly replace until October.

Then our parent company decided to add us to their domain and the geniuses over there though it would be a great move to reinforce Win10 company wide because they weren't ready for Win11 yet.

This was in March. And they're still dragging their feet and give us non-answers whenever we ask about a concrete plan for a Win11 rollout. It's kind of crazy.

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BlockBannington@reddit

99 % there. Only devices that aren't able to upgrade are left behind, we're replacing them before EOL. Everyone else has been on 11 for over 1.5 years

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Krigen89@reddit

Jumped on the train about 6 months after 11 released. Basically no issues.

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disposeable1200@reddit

Performance is slightly better with 11 than 10 for us with only 8 GB of RAM.

That being said we standardised on 16 GB just over a year ago

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cor315@reddit

Pisses me off that Dell charge $100+ CAD more for 16GB

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brandmeist3r@reddit

End user here: Performance went down the drain with even better hardware. Ryzen 5 7th gen thinkpad with 16GB RAM and it is horrible compared to 10. Personally I switched everything to Linux.

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kanid99@reddit

Done. Over a year ago. Minimal pain helped by being a virtualized organization.

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zool11rus@reddit

А у нас приказ, перевести всю инфрастуктуру на RedOS (Linux). Веселые дни меня ждут...

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mj3004@reddit

100% since January. All on 24H2 now. Zero issues

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moventura@reddit

900 devices, 500 down. We are swapping laptops and reimaging. Used the upgrade as a way to move all users to Intune/AAD rather than on Prem/SCCM. Going to have a party when the last SCCM machine is switched off.

Started in the role in June 2023 and hit the ground running. Built up Intune from scratch, packaged the apps, created new Config Profiles, set up Windows 11 imaging

Started the user migration in March last year. Ramped up in December once the bulk of the issues were ironed out.

Now it's a mostly hands off process. They drop their laptop in, we give them their replacement and some notes, cross it off the list and move to the next person.

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Technical-Device5148@reddit

Mixed bag for us.

We tend to see a few devices in the Endpoint Analytics > Work from Anywhere and look at the W11 Readiness report. A number of devices are 'Not capable' with reasons such as 'Storage'. Typically Storage = EFI partition needs the HP or Fonts are removing.

But even after doing so on some devices, a week later and it's still showing this error. And its passed all the checks when running the scripts manually on the device: https://redmondmag.com/articles/2021/09/21/microsoft-releases-powershell-script-to-check-windows-11-upgrade-readiness.aspx

Even with our Feature Update Policy being pushed, it still doesn't seem to make it's way down...

How does everyone run their updates? Via Update Rings, or via Feature Update Policies/Profiles?

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fadingcross@reddit

Completed 2 years ago.

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AegonsDragons@reddit

Incompatible devices started being replaced a couple months ago. Already pushed Win11 to a good 70% of devices. Some people got to work and complaining that their computer looks different, my response is good!

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Proper-Obligation-97@reddit

24 hosts out of 641 are running 10, mostly old desktop with no hope of upgrading it.

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Sirlowcruz@reddit

we migrated about 90% of our customers to w11 already at our MSP.

we're using intune with a lot of OIB and so far it's working out fine.

the huge legacy customers all have what I call "decision inertia" but I think we will just use the existing SCCM Infra to roll out the in place upgrade in batches.

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MarB93@reddit

We are still on W10, lol.

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thedivinehairband@reddit

Been pushing for our Windows 11 update for a while now with no buy in or agreement to process from management.

They decided last month it's now urgent.

3 days ago they said that we're going through redundancies.

I don't think they've considered that very well.

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Playful_Tie_5323@reddit

I've got 750 to do - work in a secondary school so we may start attacking it during summer hols - although I've got a entire site switch refresh to do first.

We're on LTSC so its not as urgent for us - got a mix of 12th gen i5s and 6th gen i5 hps small form factor - we're testing the older HPs in our office at present to see how they are before we pull the trigger on upgrading. We may leave these on 10 (as we have LTSC) and then just replace with newer devices at some point in the future.

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Exkudor@reddit

Every employee gets a new machine, they are ordered, just have to provision and hand them out as soon as they arrive.

Management took it upon themselves to sit on my purchasing request to replace 140 machines that were not compatible for 1.5 years, rewrite it into "we will only have one type of device in the whole company" and bundle some other shit with that as well (Duo Secure Endpoint Rollout, replacement of our RMM...). Joy.

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InvisibleTextArea@reddit

Cyber Insurance says no. Makes my job easier. Telling C-Suite 'we need to do this or our insurance is invalid is something they understnad.

We started this over 12 months ago. I have few dozen laptops left. The users are ignoring us when chased so we were contemplating forcing it. Fortunately it looks like this months Win10 update will of bricked them. So that works out well for us.

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bofh@reddit

Following the trend? We started planning this 18 month ago and were most of the way through the global rollout now. It isn’t as if the Win 10 expiration date was unknown.

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AtLeast37Goats@reddit

we’re done.

There may be a few here and there that we didn’t get to due to a few off site staff. But 99% of our fleet are on windows 11.

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AyySorento@reddit

Trend? Unless you use LTSC or plan to pay, machines stop receiving updates in October. The move to 11, at least with testing should have started months, if not years ago.

For my org, we're over 90% on 11. Over 20,000 machines. Should be done by end of summer, I hope.

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uptimefordays@reddit

Windows administrators implementing lifecycle management policies and planning around version updates? Inconceivable!

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dustojnikhummer@reddit

~~Windows administrators~~ Management giving budget to implement lifecycle management policies

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randomman87@reddit

Lol right, this ain't a trend it's just standard information security requirements

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BioshockEnthusiast@reddit

My MSP has been moving on this for a year and a half at this point lol.

Anyone just figuring this out now can feel free to send me their employer's info because their employer needs an actual IT professional instead of a scarecrow sitting in front of a computer.

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peoplefoundtheother1@reddit (OP)

what an msp monkey response but keep sending out those resumes. im sure someone will give you a chance at a cushy in house role

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BioshockEnthusiast@reddit

I'm not actively looking, I'm well taken care of and have solid work life balance.

Was joke, friend.

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peoplefoundtheother1@reddit (OP)

My bad I overreacted

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BioshockEnthusiast@reddit

It's cool dude that shit happens to the best of us. Cheers.

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Bradddtheimpaler@reddit

I realized we should have been worrying about it right after we finished the budget for this year. Luckily, almost everything we had out there could handle it and less shit has broken so far than we thought would break. I believe we’re down to hunting down stragglers as well. In orgs where devices are cycled out less frequently… ouch. It could be pretty rough to be starting the process now.

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zebulun78@reddit

Agreed. You should have most of your org on Win11 by now. You are two years too late with this question. Upgrade NOW.

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Janus67@reddit

We had folks that up until a few months ago were waiting for windows 12 news.

That's where we are in terms of upgrades and migration

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MrClavicus@reddit

This

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Leahdrin@reddit

I showed up at a new job in September. No one was even testing w11. Finally by December they were testing it in the environment. They then pushed it out to prod mid February with glaring problems reported... what a fucking nightmare.

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LilMeatBigYeet@reddit

Same here, we started actively upgrading all our workstations to W11 a year ago

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TheAnswerIsBeans@reddit

Yup, same thoughts and our endpoint team has us over 90 as well.

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OhmegaWolf@reddit

200+ devices here that needed upgrading, all remote. We're at a point where it's just Mat leave users left to upgrade and only had to replace 4 devices... Got it done in 2 months

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THe_Quicken@reddit

Been on Win 11 for about 2 years. I hate it a little more each day.

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Alzzary@reddit

About 40% of our 120 devices migrated. The pain point is the in place upgrade. I still haven't found an easy way to migrate existing device with intune, every single tutorial I tried doesn't work

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vodevil01@reddit

Nicely since day one

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tuxedoes@reddit

I have a client who is fighting tooth and nail to stay on win7 for a few users…. So it’s going great 😃

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SaucyKnave95@reddit

Okay, this is what I don't understand. Win10 is EOL in Oct, right? Does that mean the OS will automatically shut down some day in October? No, of course not. It means MS will stop publishing patches and other updates. So if that's the case for why people are scrambling, how the fuck can anyone still be running or letting someone run Win7?? And if no one is having a heart attack about that, why are we shitting ourselves over Win10? It just seems like someone is really playing IT all over the place and I'm kinda sick of it.

And I'm about 50% done through my Win11 rollout by way of new machines. Ugh.

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alerighi@reddit

There are ton of people using Windows 7 and it's not that security nightmare. You see, on one point you could say that most attackers focus on 0-day on newly released OS. The big problem would be if they find a big vulnerability in Windows 7 and Microsoft would not patch that. This is a possibility, but a vulnerability that is remotely exploitable it's not that common, and more uncommon are computers that are directly exposed to a network.

That is, if you use a Windows 7 PC under a network where no ports of the computer are exposed outside, and you for example browse the internet with an updated browser, is still very difficult to take over the computer. The user still need to download and execute a malicious application, or open a file if there is a vulnerability that can be exploited by a corrupted file (e.g. a image opened with the default image reader).

To me we have to always evaluate the associated risks, is there really a risk to have a PC with Windows 7 or XP? And if there is an identified risk, it's not always said that upgrading is the correct answer, if may be cheaper for example ensuring that that machine is protected from a network point of view, the machine may be virtualized, etc.

There is too much panic that is being generated for nothing, like "oh my god you have a Windows 7 machine you have to upgrade it otherwise they will hack you", and probably this panic begins from Microsoft that needs to sell you more licenses, and from hardware vendors since Windows 11 is not officially compatibile with PCs that are older than 5 years.

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tuxedoes@reddit

Oh we tell the heads of the company about the security nightmare win7 is, but they refuse to upgrade. They say it’s because of the legacy software, but I’m sure we can find a work around for that. Still refuse to discuss. And they got hit with ransomware about 8 months ago…

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Firerain@reddit

Your legacy software should be running in isolated VMs at this point. No reason to keep W7 in prod outside of that

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RiceeeChrispies@reddit

Moved over early last year, no problems. 23H2 was great, installed with the speed of a monthly CU.

24H2 on the other hand, can eat a bag of dicks.

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ZGTSLLC@reddit

Since most (98%) of all the work we do is through online platforms, I have just started migrating users to Linux instead. I truly dislike Windows 11 and it becoming more like Chrome Books, insofar as requiring online access and does not allow for local accounts these days. Windows 12 is supposed to be worse, so I feel there is going to be a mass migration to MacOS and Linux in the coming years, and a serious defection from Windows (thankfully).

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JJSpleen@reddit

Really good actually, started in earnest around April after lots of planning. On track to finish around August, no drama, no complaints.

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TechCF@reddit

Non-profit 90% complete. Actually more out of support Win11 devices than supported Win10. 24h2 gave us some issues, but otherwise not much issue with the upgrade.

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FluidGate9972@reddit

Done, months ago.

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Sysadmin_in_the_Sun@reddit

Mine is going great! They are rolling out Windows 10 as we speak because... management...

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Wooden-Breath8529@reddit

All done it amazes me people didn’t plan for this. I have a 4 year life cycle so for the last few years 25% got upgraded to windows 11. Just finished of rollout for the FY so all done.

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kirashi3@reddit

I have a 4 year life cycle

"You guys have hardware lifecycles?" We don't even have an accurate inventory of actually in-use and functional hardware to asset numbers outside of the Totally Correct™ information in our RMM platform. I am regularly asked for information I couldn't even lookup if I wanted to. 🤣

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MissionSpecialist@reddit

We have the same lifecycle, but only moved our ~10% pilot population to 11 on 22H2, then another ~87% to 23H2, mostly via in-place upgrades.

The final 3% are bespoke systems that need hardware replacement, and that's just taking longer than standard systems would, because they're largely one-off configs that take longer to procure due to purely internal inefficiencies. They'll be done by end of June

We started planning as soon as RTM dropped, and the above is exactly what we planned for. We learned from not starting the 7 > 10 transition early enough and ending up with a last-minute scramble on a couple hundred machines.

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Call_Me_Papa_Bill@reddit

This is the way.

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DarkangelUK@reddit

58 of 1,700 left to do.

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rikardoflamingo@reddit

Fuck windows. Fuck windows 11.
Fuck Microsoft.
Pile of steaming horse shit.

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FarToe1@reddit

Costing us a about 40% new laptops, but we've budgeted for that - it's not so different to new versions of the Mac OS dropping support on older hardware. Users have been fine with the change, no major software problems, no big rush. We planned it and so far, that's going to plan.

I think it's more annoying to home users who are perfectly happy with their hardware. Hopefully people hear about https://endof10.org/ and explore alternatives, instead of landfilling computers, but I do think this will end up as a huge environmental cost.

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Sceptically@reddit

I'm halfway done with the Windows 7 replacement project.

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wirtnix_wolf@reddit

Already decommissioned all incompatible Laptops. Since we rely on Terminalservers mostly, not many PC with windows 10 left...

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Responsible-Slide-95@reddit

We've just started a rollout. It's been a pain switching from Zenworks for app deployment and remote support to InTune and TeamViewer. I've got the lovely task of trying to get all our engineering apps to run in Win11 Nearly all of them were written for Windows XP and never been updated.

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DaithiG@reddit

We've got about 50 laptops left for an upgrade, but the pain point is the staff are working hybrid and the time it takes to upgrade. We've had to ask staff to leave their laptop on for an evening while we schedule the update

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gingerpantman@reddit

Having a lovely time getting autopatch to upgrade devices from 10 to 11. 1800 devices, 1000 upgraded so far and honestly 0 problems.

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kero_sys@reddit

We have bought new kit for everyone a year earlier on our refresh programme. so we can build window 11 devices and do a swap out. Management didn't want half a day downtime per user to rebuild their devices to Win 11.

Cricket 2.7k devices.

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stonecoldcoldstone@reddit

all machines with windows 10 will be disabled on Friday to force staff compliance, this was communicated and agreed with management

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RexRonny@reddit

Just doing it now! Have 16 out-if-office sites to finalize. Abt 8 computers on each location, like 3-5 on each that either still on 10 or not upgradeable. Also throws in enrollment, some pc’s need the regedit adjustment (from 1 to 4) on all the enrollment listings. Easy task now that I know how to solve it. Takes 1-2 locations a week. Halfway there today.
Easy and no stress task, took the management long enough to approve my extended need of traveling. But I’m on it now and will reach the goal in August.

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shmehh123@reddit

250ish PC business.

Told our helpdesk guy last year he needed to get on it and told my boss to push him harder cuz he doesn't really report to me. He's only done like 25 upgrades in a year or so. He has 65 to go.

I scripted all the other compatible 200ish machines that could be upgraded so I did my part in the upgrade. He just needs to do his. I'd help him if he asked but I think he just hates people.

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tobographic@reddit

I pushed the button without authorization or any sort of plan over 2 years ago.

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RavenWolf1@reddit

You have to ordered to do anything? My self I started upgrading last fall. I offered is as optional. Surprising few opted to it. Now we are piloting 24h2 and we are moving forcefully to upgrade samples size of 10%. From August we start to deploying to whole organization which will last whole fall. We do this via Autopatch.

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Xzenor@reddit

We've been on 11 since the first feature upgrade

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SG10HD-YT@reddit

Did that 2 years ago

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Xenoous_RS@reddit

Company of 65 here. Run feature update via Intune on all end user devices earlier this year, 95% of devices updated without issue. Rest were easy to solve.

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madladjocky@reddit

Pain due to crap budgeting from SLT

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Gh0styD0g@reddit

Did it last year, no giant rush

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DarkLordMalak@reddit

Over 15,000 users. No issues really.

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Sudden_Death666@reddit

I have almost all eligible devices on W11 now, but that is only 20% of my pc’s. The rest will be replaced with new hardware that will include W11. Hopefully I will get it done before Oktober. 🎉 Time to get rid if these 11+ year old crap that needed to be replaced 6 years ago. Change of management can be good sometimes. 😉

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evileagle@reddit

Great. It's a fine product. I honestly feel like people just want to complain about it. I remember the same shit with Win7->Win10.

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AlaskanDruid@reddit

Huh. I guess my employer is big enough (state gov) to have some kind of extended support from Microsoft. Not a peep about upgrading to 11 so far.

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Shotokant@reddit

Why the hell do people wait so long for these things. Youve got a few months left, wtf were you doing for the last three years?

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smilaise@reddit

We're also doing it. I'm overseeing the upgrades for three companies this week.

Should be fine tho, I don't forsee any problems.

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yawn1337@reddit

I'm really lucky when it comes to this. I told my head of department that we need to start upgrading around the midpoint of last year and he gave me the go-ahead. Waiting on 15 more devices because we are switching our supplier atm and that is taking longer than expected but should conclude this week, between this and the rest of the users that need upgrading I should be done in 2 months tops

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wrootlt@reddit

90% done. But as usual last 10% will be harder. It's a bunch of old hardware with no concrete plans what to do about them. I am sending info to my boss, he will try talking to other managers to figure out. In some cases i know they try workaround for TPM/CPU. But they most probably won't update to 24H2+ down the line, so it is still temporary. And in some cases when they tried this, machines were crashing.

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slashinhobo1@reddit

No direction here. I am pretty sure they will wait until the last minute. I've been prepared since January. I plan on pushing out a PS1 file to auto update to Windows 11 24h2. We uses a WSUS but its flaky, the PS1 file will push it out to the machine as soon as it comes on. All the file is doing is pushing the media creation tool to the users machine and activating it in the background.

We would have to send a notification to users letting them know what we are doing and when it will occur. Of course we will get 70% of users with laptops who don't listen and get upset when the next time they start the computer it updates 30 minutes into the work day. I don't think there is a way to stop it unless the user turns the machines on and mid way they decided to turn it off again. I intentional prevented warning or prompts because they will 100% delay it.

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gumbrilla@reddit

We went to windows 11 2 years ago. Didn't take that long, In place upgrade was surprisingly good, just did a bunch every week, so as not to get overloaded, after we got autopilot going, just swapped people's devices.

Bit of a nothing burger for us.

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ie-sudoroot@reddit

30% rollout so far… discovered an issue with credential guard that prevents logged in users with modified samaccountnames from joining WiFi networks deployed by group policy.

Above scenario happens often with us, marital and employment status changes, so rather than nuking the profile or moving to cert based auth have a ticket open with MS AD team to find resolution.

Otherwise everything else seems good.

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Odd_Quarter_799@reddit

The solution is disable credential guard:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/credential-guard/configure?tabs=intune#disable-credential-guard

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disposeable1200@reddit

That's uh, by design

Your WiFi setup sucks

So Microsoft are just gonna shrug at you...

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Fit-Grocery8327@reddit

We did this a year ago. All done 😊 About 200 endpoints that needed upgrading.

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AdPlenty9197@reddit

We’ve been on 11 since early 2023.

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Ummgh23@reddit

It hasn't started. LTSC baby.

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dark_gear@reddit

Management is on board and we'll have all our hardware upgraded or updated before the deadline. Although I'm bracing for Microsoft to change their mind and push the date like they did with Windows XP, I'd rather assume they won't.

What is funny to me is that some suppliers really just don't get it. As I'm speaking to the sales team for Canada's largest pharmacy service provider and saying I'm looking for a quote to update our POS computers so they'll support Win11, the hapless chap on the other end cheerfully offers "Well if you're looking for a deal we have 9th gen Intel systems that come loaded with Windows 10 LTS". I shook my head and just asked if they had anything from this decade that supports Win11.

It's clear that the main reason some pharmacies have older hardware is that suppliers will gleefully sell antiquated gear for today's prices without batting an eye.

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WigginIII@reddit

Have units that fail the upgrade when pushed via sccm but successfully upgrade when downloading the update assistant from windows. Can’t explain it.

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Firerain@reddit

Prereqs are failing. Check panther logs on failed devices to find out what's causing it

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Weird_Lawfulness_298@reddit

Biggest issue we will have is with some medical devices that are connected to a computer running Windows 10. The vendors are notoriously slow about updating their software but Windows 10 will likely not be HIPAA compliant come October. Some vendors say they have to get FDA approval first which is probably BS.

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firedrakes@reddit

Hipaa compliance and security is a joke. Idea was sound but way it fun now. Is joke.

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kennyj2011@reddit

My org is just doing this now… make it look like win 10 so nobody has to learn anything new… I’m glad I’m not on the client device side of the house!

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khymbote@reddit

Found an issue with Jabra Evolve2 30 usb headset and a RealTek sound chipset on the Optiplex 7010 that doesn’t work. There is an updated driver from Jan that fixes it. Do not apply the updated driver before you upgrade to Win11.

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DDS-PBS@reddit

We moved over a couple years ago.

Dude, you're on the warning track (the dirt area in baseball that warns an outfielder he's about to run into a wall).

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ReptilianLaserbeam@reddit

Just now?? We moved every machine to win11 about two years ago or so

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NIAD_SIRDNE@reddit

We have about a couple of thousand still needing upgraded. Every one of them has to be manually re-imaged which takes ~1 hour.

We also have dozens of offices with no on-site staff and hundreds of remote workers. We are a mess.

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noideabutitwillbeok@reddit

Finished months ago, sitting on 23H2 until beta testing is over and 24 is less problematic.

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ModernaPapi@reddit

We have 25 out 4600 left. Goal is to be finished by end of this week.

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danielcoh92@reddit

Windows 11 is really ok once you get used to it..

Our HD team is tasked with upgrading about 200 workstations..
All computers are compliant (Lenovo E/T/P 15 Gen2+) and I built them a BigFix task that would install W11 silently in the background and then prompt the user to restart when it's ready.

We have many issues with the upgrade process and unlike previous upgrades, the Panther folder is filled with useless data now and the logs became so complicated to understand that I sometimes give up on trying to troubleshoot the upgrade issues and just re-image the computers.

SentinelOne doesn't like this in-place upgrade and will block it. It will block VSS trying to create a restore point before the upgrade process ends. This happened to us with 80% of the computers so far. No indication it's blocked on ST1 at all. I had similar issues with servers failing to backup because of ST1 so I knew it was the thing causing issues.

Anyway, we have to disable ST1, restart the computer, run the in-place upgrade and then hope there will be no errors.
The upgrade logs will cry and fail about "duplicate SIDS" (no way), MS SQL instance installed on the laptop, incompatible drivers like "print to PDF" and I recently found that it doesn't like domain profiles that were migrated using ADMT.

We already upgraded 150\~ computers out of the 200 but I really find myself working hard trying to decipher those unfriendly logs.

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Cold-Cap-8541@reddit

Wait until you discover those NT 4.0 still running something critcal in the back of the server room. If your organization is big enought, you know I am not kidding!

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TheGreatNico@reddit

We've done some trial departments, including IT, and it's progressing smoothly, but I'm in healthcare IT, so we've got a zillion applications that aren't even win10 compatible officially, so we've got to test every. single. one. 90/10 rule in full swing

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pueblokc@reddit

Been retiring older computers for a few months and deploying new win11.

Along with lots of 10 to 11 upgrades.

So yes getting rid of 10 everywhere

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Math_comp-sci@reddit

Every time I let a PC upgrade to Win11 decides that it must connect to the network using wi-fi despite ethernet being plugged in and wi-fi having never been used on win10. As a result of this the first attempt to logon after upgrading gets stuck because Windows can't contact the Domain controller. It is the only problem blocking me from finishing the Win11 migration.

All the PC's that can't be upgraded to Win11 have been replaced, been redeployed with Linux, or has had its replacement purchased. I had one user encounter the Windows desktop manager slowdown issue but that bug seems to have been fixed now. Windows 11 has been fine otherwise.

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Meecht@reddit

I'm about halfway through replacing our ~150 desktops. I spent most of last year learning and setting up Autopilot, Intune, and Company Portal, and I'm glad to say most everything is working great.

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FTCW@reddit

Corporate - please upgrade to w11 by October IT - ok we need money for new equipment Finance - there's no money for this Corporate - please upgrade to w11 by October IT - .......

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Artistic_Total1331@reddit

Windows 11 has been a much better experience than win10

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myrianthi@reddit

Too slow. Leadership not taking it seriously and dragging their feet. It won't be finished before the deadline and they'll be complaining, but I've put it all in multiple emails, so it's no longer my problem.

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ccsrpsw@reddit

95% Win11 here. It’s taken 18 months. If you have not started yet, you may as well just say we’re doing ESU at this time. Even assuming all your hardware can do Winn 11 (8th gen, TPM, etc) if you haven’t sorted your software yet you’re in for a world of hurt.

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spaghettibolegdeh@reddit

Let's just say that working in a critical organization that has been around forever means everything IT is held together with duct tape.

So, lots of critical systems failing to get passed W11 testing. Fun times.

Personally, I'm studying Linux/Unix so I can pivot out of these kinda of rollout projects and get into other teams lol.

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CallMeNoodler@reddit

We’re doing pretty good. Started the windows 11 upgrade initiative in July 2023 and we’ve just been slowly and steadily upgrading everyone that wouldn’t be refreshed before 2025, and all new images since then have been 11. Just a few holdouts left.

Sometimes it pays to take action before your hand is forced.

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benderunit9000@reddit

11k machines. Been done for years.

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JRandallC@reddit

Been working on it for over a year. About a dozen machines left. It's been pretty seamless.

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Call_Me_Papa_Bill@reddit

Reading some of the depressing comments here, I’m so glad I left for consulting years ago. Now I get to go in, do an assessment, tell management the same thing you’ve been telling them for years, get paid for it, then leave. Sometimes they actually listen to us and allocate some money to fix stuff we “discovered” 🙂

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Sebekiz@reddit

90% of the systems that can be upgraded to Windows 11 are done. We've got a few stragglers that I have to remediate. The next challenge is getting the systems that lack the required TPM chip replaced. I've got orders placed for those, but thanks to a politician who will not be named, getting new computers and laptops is not so easy these days.

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Deadly-Unicorn@reddit

Our upgrades went well when we did them last year and before… it’s really painless.

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MSPITMAN@reddit

Uh I accidentally told ninja to update every computer to windows 11 in a Friday and now everything is finished without a single failure. That was easy.

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Dizzy_Bridge_794@reddit

60% done. Has gone fairly steady.

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imnotabotareyou@reddit

Pretty smooth. Only pushback is from devices that are incompatible but really don’t need to be replaced. So we will do ESU on them (strictly budgetary reasons)

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Kahless_2K@reddit

Getting off to a late start I see.

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WineFuhMeh_@reddit

I've headed this last year did 100 at a week till i was done 1900 endpoints... Went Smooth with Tanium... Now we have to replace 250 laptops because some smart ass before my time decided to put the fleet on LTSC 1809, and Microsoft Teams stop working in a few weeks... So yea welcome to my life... Hell..

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Dinilddp@reddit

Camera issues, printing to pdf issues

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ghosxt_@reddit

No issues now, at first weird issues with a IPU we made but once we did a driver update no issues.

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Shipkiller-in-theory@reddit

If our enterprise operations dept could create a non buggy/crash happy image it would be going better.

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nick149@reddit

Just finished ours, around 70 out of 200 after replacements and reimages when I started the process around 3 months ago.

Worst problem I had was TPM or Secure Boot was turned off by the last IT guys on a few computers, so I had to go on-site and fix it in BIOS. Also turned on Bitlocker after those computers were upgraded, no issues with that either.

Healthcare industry, very limited specific software though. The only vendor I needed to contact was the access control system guys and overall they had no concern.

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Ambitious-Actuary-6@reddit

95% here, finishing by the end of May, will be chasing last outliers in June

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bigDOS@reddit

The company I work for is going through a merger, a 365 / one drive migration and a windows 11 deployment all rolled into one. I have been moved onto the project as the principle in-house engineer. We are waiting for some tenders from IT vendors who will assist on the whole project. There is a lot to do as our environment is very complex. I am fortunate they have hired someone to pickup the slack on the day to day, so I am training them now before we kick off on the whole she bang a month or so from now.

It’s nice to work as apart of a team that really takes architecture snd security seriously and ensure the team is properly supported. It makes projects take a LOT longer, than I am used to, and frustrates the vendors when we call out all the shit they haven’t done properly (according to our design spec) but it’s important to get this stuff setup properly. I am really looking forward to getting the ball rolling on all this work. We need to get off Win 10 and become more cloud native.

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DontMilkThePlatypus@reddit

We've been done for nearly 2 years now. Steer clear of 24H2, mate.

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Oskarikali@reddit

Were they Dell laptops?

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mikedufty@reddit

I thought I'd upgrade my own first as a test - ended up in a boot loop and had to wipe C drive and reinstall from scratch, so I guess will have to work on the assumption everyone may need that.

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coreyman2000@reddit

Done 2 + years ago, 10,000+

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williehowe@reddit

Not good. 24H2 rollout and updates on Lenovos has been a dumpster fire.

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denmicent@reddit

We got orders from on high too. It’s going.. about half way there I’d think. Started about a month or two ago.

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Terrible-Advantage20@reddit

I just started in a new job at the start of this year and no one has even thought about upgrading or updating in any capacity. That is still my ongoing project to this date couple thousand endpoints in all different use cases about 65% completed

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dpf81nz@reddit

finished 2 years ago, no dramas

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AyyyyItsAndy@reddit

Started the upgrade of 900 machines in November. We’ve been trying to get the last 7 devices done for two months now. Overall, it wasn’t bad, especially considering previous IT teams disabled secure boot/TPM :)))

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tdez11@reddit

I’ve had issues with Dell OEM drivers that I’ve had to straight up remove

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omnicons@reddit

Went great! With Intune I've pushed a few thousand endpoints up to Windows 11 and only have just over a dozen stragglers left to track down. Mostly hands off which was excellent. Just moved computers into the upgrade group and they upgraded.

The only issues we saw so far were computers with their disks being full for one reason or another.

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AgentBlue14@reddit

It's going.

Our organization's CIO gave a soft deadline of early May and now into mid-May, we still have a ton of W10 machines on our network.

Hoping to be done before June as all the bugs are coming out of the woodwork.

It's funny that we've been emailing people since mid-April and just had one come in this week who copped to ignoring our messages for two months. And she came in during our weekend hours to complain about why it hasn't been finished two days later, at the back of my 50-incident queue.

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battmain@reddit

This was the exact reason I decided to do silent and forced installs. The entire list of machines was split between the team. I got so frustrated trying to get people to cooperate that I simply gave up and said fuck it. A security group later and sccm image tried on a test desktop and laptop and all the machines assigned to me we're in the silent queue and getting loaded. Once I passed on the security group to a few on the team, theirs were done in no time too. The ones that didn't go too well and ended up with blue screen, brought them in and reimagined on site or replaced machine. More checked off the list. Never mind all the other crap we're saddled with.

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quadcore-@reddit

How are you all upgrading? Are you deploying with an in-place upgrade using sccm?

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squatingyeti@reddit

I don't think we're really have problems with applications and windows issues with 24H2 and most of our company is on it globally. What is frustrating is how random machines refuse to complete the monthly update without the September checkpoint KB as well. Our install is standardized and it's maddening. Oh, and the nearly 4GB May update 😂

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Wartz@reddit

Done a couple years ago

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Impossible_IT@reddit

Done over 6-8 months ago. Got ride of computers that couldn’t upgrade.

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Skvli@reddit

We did it one year after it came out

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guydogg@reddit

Large org. About 75% complete.

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mikeredstone@reddit

Same 2000+

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mikeredstone@reddit

Anything missed wiil get esu. Maybe 5 -10 percent at most.

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taker25-2@reddit

I’m ahead of the curb, so I’m casually deploying them out.

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disposeable1200@reddit

Ahead?

We've been only deploying 11 for a year and a half

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taker25-2@reddit

We’ve been doing the same but many companies aren’t or waiting for the last minute to do so. I’ll be done by time August get here when the non compatible computers will be replaced and on 11. By October, we’ll be way done and working on other projects. In other words we’re being proactive and im on schedule to be done before the deadline.

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Hefty-Room-297@reddit

"The curb" is the end of support date, not your made up date of when you got yours done.

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skwormin@reddit

Just a few left in my OU, remaining 10 devices will be retired / replaced by EOL date. Mostly just up to my users to backup their files, if they miss the deadline, oops, off the domain

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Weary_Patience_7778@reddit

No issues. Windows 11 is four years old now. We migrated about two years ago and haven’t looked back.

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c3corvette@reddit

We're done.

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nestersan@reddit

Smooth.

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Nnyan@reddit

All done and almost done with 24H2.

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lineskicat14@reddit

What annoys be about your scenario, which is similar to mine.. it seems Security teams now dictate every decision. Its no longer coming from C-level folks, but instead its coming from some security analyst with 2 years of experience who read a blog about Windows 10, and now wants the entire company to migrate ASAP, with zero regard for cost, other more pressing needs, or any other implications.

And the worst part of this? These security/ISO folks never actually do any of the work. They have all these opinions on how things should work, but ask them to image some laptops and its "oh jeez I dont really know how". eye roll.

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peoplefoundtheother1@reddit (OP)

Finally! somone in the same boat as I am. Me or my manager whose in charge of global infrastructure no longer get a say in these scenarios and its insane

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lineskicat14@reddit

Its fucking nuts man. These guys basically go unchecked in their day to day. And they really dont DO any of the actual work, if ever. Its a pretty sweet gig, if you ask me.

And I get the need for security. I do. But these folks never look at any other impact other than the security impact. They'd lock the same door with the 10th lock, if it meant checking a box for an audit, not realizing that the door didnt need that many locks and now not even those within the agency can get through that door.

Essentially they lock things down SO much that productivity is hindered. And if productivity is hindered enough, the business could fail. But hey, we put 5 minute timeouts on every admin page that we can!

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RoninIX@reddit

We're not having fun with this. Our structure was mostly on-prem and Windows 10 LTSC. Some C level schmuck thought he was going to renegotiate with M$ and cost us our LTSC support 6 months ago. We've had to pivot to Win11/Intune without being ready from an infrastructure or hardware perspective. End result is if that C level putz had kept his mouth shut, we wouldn't be in the bind we're in. The net cost of man hours and equipment replacement blew what little savings that idiot thought he was generating. I'm sure he'll bail by October and claim credit for all the work done by the sysadmin team and the local guys.

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MairusuPawa@reddit

What? No I'm not moving away from Linux, lol, wtf.

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VeryRareHuman@reddit

Not exactly sure what the fear is for. New OS. Bugs in updates (like that it never happened before). There is always that guy who never likes a new thing.

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brothertax@reddit

Newly deployed hardware is Windows 11 managed in intune only. Existing domain joined Windows 10 devices are getting in-place upgrades via SCCM.

The in-place upgrades are hit or miss. We have like a 15% failure rate. As a “last resort” we packaged the Windows 11 Installation Assistant as an app the user can kick off if the in-place upgrade fails.

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Tb1969@reddit

Moved up to 23H2 last Summer and locked it to that version.

24H2 is still a bit off but soon I think.

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iamamystery20@reddit

Not even started 🤣 Leadership is okay buying esu.

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Darkhigh@reddit

"Orders from security" ... do you not pay attention to end of support dates?

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ddiggler15@reddit

If it weren’t myself and my boss (RISO) our ops team wouldn’t have started yet. They all looked like shocked picachu in November when we asked their plan for 1000 win10 machines. Same thing happened with 2k12 and each version of win10. Just unbelievable

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VeryRareHuman@reddit

Being in a software company, the upgrade is going very well. Devs love the new Win 11 OS, they used it only on test machines so far.

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CreativeDimension@reddit

what upgrade?

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wargh_gmr@reddit

Still on High Sierra, smh.

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1101base2@reddit

professionally we have been working on it for over a year and a half, and are about 65% of the way there and have not been deploying any new windows 10 machines for 6 months. personally i absolutely hate it and me and my kids PC's are going to stay win 10 until the bitter end (hopping to go from 10 to 12, and hopping 12 is better.

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BlazeReborn@reddit

We're finally rolling 24H2 out to workstations, now that it's actually not breaking anything. So far so good.

Except for a couple workstations with 32 bit Office that didn't update to 64 bit properly and I had to get it done manually. Bit of a pain in the arse but the worst has passed. And of course, the occasional Intune nightmare...

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Grand_rooster@reddit

I made an upgrade task sequence in sccm. Deployed to all workstations as available. The only issues I've had are incompatible computers. I have those new systems on order.

5000+ clients

1000ish upgraded thus far

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changee_of_ways@reddit

Christ, I thought this was going to be a thread about 24H2 updates blowing up something else

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jamesfigueroa01@reddit

Damn bro, your gonna have to step on it

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Sensitive_Monitor847@reddit

Good only have to do the non compliance swaps out. I had to do 600 by "hand" SCCM decied to not want to push out the upgrade. That was a small precentage of my fleet. I feel bad for the team that has to do the swaps tho.

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thatvixenivy@reddit

Just completed the pilot, so far so good. We only have about 3000 workstations to upgrade, and have all new machines going out with win11.

There is some old hardware in the org, the list by business unit is going to our procurement folks this week.

Hoping to have everyone we can moved by the deadline, but if not we're just gonna have to pay for extended support. I can only do so much when I was only given the go ahead to start this 2 months ago.

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PC509@reddit

We’ve been testing the past 6-12 months. Starting the upgrade in a couple weeks. Should be a quick one for the company. Had to get all compatibility issues straightened out first (had a problem with wireless security among others).

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khopki30@reddit

We are about 1/3 of the way through our 1200-odd fleet. Only issue was the new snipping tool doesn't have the same name as the old one... So we have ended up packaging and delpyong the old one as well.

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ccosby@reddit

We finished ours like 2 years ago. Started the migration from direct access to intune right before which means most people needed their laptops swapped anyway. Overall it went fine.

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khopki30@reddit

We are about 1/3 of the way through our 1200-odd fleet. Only issue was the new snipping tool doesn't have the same name as the old one... So we have ended up packaging and delpyong the old one as well.

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khopki30@reddit

We are about 1/3 of the way through our 1200-odd fleet. Only issue was the new snipping tool doesn't have the same name as the old one... So we have ended up packaging and delpyong the old one as well.

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discgman@reddit

It went fine two years ago.

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FloppyDorito@reddit

Ordered a batch of Intel 8th Gen Dell SFFs off eBay.

They had 11 Home instead of the advertised 11 Pro.

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michaelpaoli@reddit

I switched from UNIX to Debian GNU/Linux in 1998, so not a problem for me!

Likewise for most all the (*nix) work I do.

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LBishop28@reddit

Finished since last November. We’ve optimized and are cruising.

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dav3n@reddit

Just finalising testing now, they've only got about 90 users at the moment and we'll make it available to users to deploy themselves in a couple of weeks, and then force it out a bit after that.

A lot of our user base think they're a lot busier and more important than they really are, so we'll give them a couple of weeks to make time to push the upgrade button before we push it for them.

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Three_Headed_Monkey@reddit

We've completed our Win 11 update last year. We spent quite a lot of time testing the update ourselves and with staff. Especially app compatibility.

While we didn't have much issues with apps we did come across a couple of random issues where mics plugged in via the 3.5 jack and USB went really low volume for no reason. I think this was on older laptops that had no new realtek driver available.

So you may see some strange issues. We had enough time to find most of the odd issues and prepare a plan for how to deal with them when we upgraded en masse, such as having a stock of spare laptops in case the update caused issues to warrant a replacement. You may not have much time to prepare unfortunately, but I recommend doing as much testing as you can with IT staff and then with a pilot ring of users capturing a broad spectrum of roles and departments.

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DariusWolfe@reddit

I'm happy to say that is NOT my problem. The Windows 11 update was delegated to another SA to handle, so other than providing feedback (and taking notes 'cause the GPO updates ARE my problem) I'm barely involved.

We did find a dismaying number of our devices aren't compatible w/ Win11, so that was fun...

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alberta_beef@reddit

Been on Win11 for two years. No issues.

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KlanxChile@reddit

Figured out how to license win10LTSC... Enterprise license agreement, kMS server, and the whole nine yards. No more crazy reboots, kernel watchdog or stopcodes bsod, etc. Same hardware 90% less issues.

No more random crashes.

I'll wait for 12.

Win11 is another Microsoft "public beta" half assed OS.

Such as: Windows 95, ME, Vista, 8 and now 11...

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gadget850@reddit

Our last holdout group finally got approved and is awaiting pushes, so they are of course, putting in tickets.

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julioqc@reddit

I changed jobs because I hate it

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Smallp0x_@reddit

Around 750 left to go but because we’ve received so many tickets about performance issues after upgrading we’re taking this last group slowly.

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civiljourney@reddit

This is why I'm not opting to upgrade anything and instead putting a fresh image on everything.

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disposeable1200@reddit

I've in place upgraded like a thousand devices without issue

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Smallp0x_@reddit

Nice. I wish that was an option for us :(

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hy2rogenh3@reddit

Still in a holding pattern. Other teams are pending certification of their apps on Windows 11.

Some server systems need to be upgraded to support Windows 11 so we’re prioritizing that first.

Probably will end up with a bunch of ESUs if we’re being realistic.

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Dwaggel@reddit

This "trend" you speak of started a year and a half ago.

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cagedbleach@reddit

Helpdesk is handling. We wrote a script for it but we used ADMT to migrate machines from one domain to another last year and it turns out there was one little reg key stopping us on machines that had been migrated. Once we figured out that issue, I think they are making pretty good progress.

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coukou76@reddit

Give more details we can help, it might help other people too

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flatland99@reddit

Do you mind sharing that reg key? I have about 130 PCs that were migrated from another domain and I can't get them to upgrade to win11 reliably.

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cagedbleach@reddit

“You need to go to “Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList” and delete the non-current domain we migrated to profile key, restart the computer, and then you can run the Windows 11 upgrade from Automox.”

Those SIDs with 282 at the beginning were the profiles of our new domain and that 369 one was their profile on the old domain. Once we deleted that key from the old domain, we were able to push out scripted Win11 upgrade without errors. You can obviously back that key up somewhere just in case before deleting it but it fixed us right up. Hope it helps!

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970KeW@reddit

We did the upgrade last year. I just have to go to one office to replace the machines altogether.

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Imdoody@reddit

Ugh... TPM...

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disposeable1200@reddit

I stopped deploying 10 nearly a year and a half ago.

And I think our feature update policy finished about a year ago

Why are we still doing 10?!

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F0LL0WFREEMAN@reddit

We had an old director who was taking win11 machines and imaging them to windows 10 about 1.5 years ago. Dude quit and I immediately got us shifted to win11. We’re about 85% 11 now with 300ish 10 machines left. Pretty good shape, expect to have most of the rest done by fall.

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sumZy@reddit

It's end of service in 5 months, everyone should have been win11 last year.

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muozzin@reddit

We finished migration from win10 azure registered to win11 azure joined in 2022

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neihn@reddit

We started in early 2024 and are about 98% done now. There are a few stragglers that will be taken care of in the next few weeks and a couple of other devices will remain windows 10 due to being medical devices but they will have ESU added to them for an additional year.

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sportomatic75@reddit

My job role has a lot of management lack of delegation and following a process. We have trouble documenting and following a procedure as a team mostly due to lack of management planning. That is kicking our ass but we are all Windows 11 in a huge school district

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Cav3tr0ll@reddit

We did our environment by Q4 2024. Mostly painless. Still have 3 VMs to go, but that's a licensing issue.

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zebulun78@reddit

Orders from security? Keep your resume updated...

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New_Shallot8580@reddit

We're pretty much done aside from 2 or 3 outliers that won't update automatically for some reason. Im curious what the main hangups for people are; what's mainly holding people back? Legacy systems? It was pretty painless for us, so maybe we just got lucky

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seanhead@reddit

Do you want Ubuntu/REHL or a mac?

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Whistlin_Bungholes@reddit

Finished up a couple months ago.

Outside of some user growing pains, it wasn't too bad.

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battmain@reddit

We just started lol. I'm lying. Delayed 3 months for security review. Probably would have been done already. It wasn't as bad as I thought since I had started last year before being stopped and haven't touched it or looked at it while security did their things. We got the go ahead this week. I ran a report before I left the office Friday and have under 400 to go based on the report from AD. Compared to the close to 1000 I had when we started. I'd say we are on track to finish before the annual freeze. Some security groups, sccm, and sit back and wait for reports of blue screens.

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Fast-Mathematician-1@reddit

Did it year and half ago. Good luck to you, my friend. Maybe hold off on 24h2 until you check everything.

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joeyl5@reddit

we purchased 810 PCs before tariffs go into effect, if they ever do. The techs are going to have a busy summer

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apple_tech_admin@reddit

We have about 110 devices out of 2300 left. I plan to ~~deploy~~ assign them this upcoming Friday. Can't wait to be done!

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reviewmynotes@reddit

The number of Windows 10 systems I have is countable on one hand. Possibly one finger. I'm only aware of one, and it controls the sign in front of the campus. I just haven't gotten around to assessing its propriety software yet.

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PurpleCableNetworker@reddit

Migrated to 10 3 years ago. Took us nearly a full year, but I’m glad we’re here now.

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trollware@reddit

New purchases for end users have been win 11 for years now. I requisitioned myself a mac (though will be retaining a win 10 for customer user support purposes) because I hate 11 and it's inability to remember that a driver an OEM or I installed on purpose is to remain installed. And not be replaced by what ever "it thinks" is the best candidate for the job. Yes these things are GPOd to high heavens and all it still does this.

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rajurave@reddit

Most of our clients apps are SaaS n Browser. We are proposong Chromebooks , Chrome OS Flex or Ubuntu on the desktop.

We educate the clients and said you can upgrade but hardware is 7+ years old so it might be a path of mixed use new pc's for accounting win 11 and chromebooks let's see.

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Bourne069@reddit

Only just now getting the order to do this? My team has been upgrading/replacing systems for the last 2 years now...

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Jirv311@reddit

Ours was done months ago. Went fine.

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Buddhas_Warrior@reddit

This, have about 80 devices that need their H W replaced but everyone else is upgraded.

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Good_Ingenuity_5804@reddit

Going well!

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movieguy95453@reddit

My company has been 100% on Windows 11 for over 2 years with no real issues. This is about 40 desktops and 15-20 laptops.

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Kogyochi@reddit

Been smooth sailing for the most parts. No major incompatibilities ftw.

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QuietThunder2014@reddit

It was super easy. We used Action1 and pretty much flipped everyone over the course of a few days. Did them in batches just in case but only had maybe a handful that we had to manually clean up to upgrade.

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Faithlessness4337@reddit

We are probably 90% done. Just a few stragglers to upgrade. We started early, so there were some minor issues at the time, but everything is pretty smooth now.

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thinkingobserver@reddit

99% done

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Battle-Crab-69@reddit

Yeah of course I mean you kind of have to right. We’re replacing a lot of perfectly good hardware. Hundreds of Gen4 ProDesk minis and Elitebook 1030s. Insane. My Proxmox cluster at home is growing substantially though ;)

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Cl3v3landStmr@reddit

IIRC, HP G4 desktops and G5 laptops should meet Win11 requirements. We still have a bunch of EliteDesk 800 G4s and EliteBook x360 1040 G5s and they upgrade no issue.

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Battle-Crab-69@reddit

Yeah might not have been G4 actually, can’t fully recall. The processor is i5 7500. I think.

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f0gax@reddit

Slow. Too many other projects ahead of it and too few people to do the job. But we’ll get there.

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UndeadCircus@reddit

I’ve done a few and have had no issues at all. Just run the Win11 update script, let it reboot, and your mother has a brother named Bob.

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maggotses@reddit

It's a really smooth move... You can do that in-place, remotely, when the users are working, then reboot to install.

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whydontyouwork@reddit

You need 16gigs of ram

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BroncosAvalanche@reddit

Small rural hospital. Lol yeah we're making progress

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ratczar@reddit

We just did this at ours and bafflingly the only thing that went really wrong was with the mic drivers.

Everyone logged in the day after the upgrade and about 1/3 of staff were too quiet to hear!

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blairtm1977@reddit

OP should have added a bit more context about the size of their organization. It must be small if they’re just getting to it now. Otherwise you’re in for some looooong days ahead. We started over a year ago. All users are upgraded only some random desktops running funky software are left.

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LitzLizzieee@reddit

We've been deploying it across clients since last year. The current client i'm working on has more than 4000 devices and we're doing it in batches of 100 or so every week via Intune. We're moving to 23H2 for now, and will deploy 24H2 when 25H2 is out.

Currently we're at 50%, with the goal to reach the end by October.

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Aeroamer@reddit

Good thanks to me. Got a good sccm task sequence in place.

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awetsasquatch@reddit

We've been mostly win11 for about 8 months. Still some holdouts, and of course the few odd lab machines that run WindowsXP. In general we haven't had any issues really other than users complaining things aren't the same.

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TeamInfamous1915@reddit

I started incorporating Win 11 with our hardware refresh 2 years ago. We are about 60% complete. Only had a couple of devices that gave us issues so far. I estimate we should be done by July

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duranfan@reddit

About 3/4 of the way done (1000 PCs or so. Started in February, doing a phased rollout by business unit. We only have about 50 that couldn’t be upgraded, and we’re on track to be finished well before October.

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korbanik@reddit

At an enterprise level firm and we’re upgrading via USB. On top of that our engineering teams don’t want to work together so they’re not domain joined! It’s been fantastic to say the least.

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Due_Contribution250@reddit

I upgraded my pc to Ubuntu 24.04 and I'm loving it.

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adams_unique_name@reddit

We're working on it. There's one department that is still using some old application that we're not sure will play well with 11 so we're waiting until we go live with a new SaaS solution for them in July to upgrade their computers. It was annoying enough to get them working on 10 so we're not even trying with 11.

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ShahIsmail1501@reddit

Started it last year and finishing up now. Had to replace 150+ PCs because they weren't Win 11 compatible. Was a mental sink having to image so many PCs with MDT then giving them out to users all by myself.

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Junior-Warning2568@reddit

I led the migration for our two unclassified networks, our Secret one and about half way with the Top Secret. Around July this past year we started imaging new devices to Windows 11, and the 8,000+ laptops with Windows 11 we pushed in place upgrades via SCCM.

Rather smooth and on tap to be complete in the coming month.

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ForCom5@reddit

Minor bumps here and there, but all things considered, it's going pretty smoothly. We'll be done ahead of schedule at the current rate.

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shizakapayou@reddit

Your security team hasn’t been paying attention if they’re just now asking this. We’re five months from the end of 10, these projects should be winding up now, not starting.

95% done here.

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Public_Pain@reddit

No issues where I’m at. I updated about four computers in an office of 15 people. What I don’t like is the latest version of Outlook. Some of the useful features were either removed or buried deep within the program.

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Lonecoon@reddit

Almost done. Just the CEO and a few managers who have been studiously avoiding me for the upgrades.

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hosalabad@reddit

We’re at 1400/1700 complete. Pretty much no issues. Let it rip.

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Daphoid@reddit

It's our most successful upgrade ever apparently. I wasn't here for the win10+o365 one but that was tricky I've heard. We're at a high percentage of adoption already.

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ohyeahwell@reddit

Wow, it went well years ago. Had to replace non-TPMable and 7th gen machines.

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Cutoffjeanshortz37@reddit

We are 90% complete. All locations the upgrade has been pushed but obviously some Karens refuse to reboot and let their system upgrade. I think we're not forcing the upgrade process until next year. That said, helpdesk is instructed to inform users that are still on win10 they need to do the upgrade. We've just about remediated those that are having disk space issues.

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bobs143@reddit

Been moving the last few months to everyone on w Windows 11. Trying to stay ahead of the end of support in October.

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wedgieinhumanform@reddit

Upgrade? We’ve been deploying it for at least 2 years…

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Craig__D@reddit

On a computer by computer basis it either goes perfectly or it’s a huge pain.

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Spamburger_Hamburger@reddit

My work laptop was too old for an update to windows 11 so I got a new laptop this week as one of the last people at the company to get moved to 11. I've been on 11 on all my personal stuff for so long it's been no issue at all. I really like 11.

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swissthoemu@reddit

We’re fully 11 for more than a year now. No issues. We waited with 24H2 though but this seems to be fine as well now.

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Sway_RL@reddit

We started about 6 months ago. A lot of computers needing replacing as they don't meet W11 requirements; about 150 replaced so far.

Hoping to be finished the upgrades before August.

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Kuipyr@reddit

Wow, we've been fully on 11 for 2 years.

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Fresh_Customer3428@reddit

I've done two projects the last 1.5 years as the Sr. technical resource, 18k and 65k endpoints. I love a good migration.

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verbzero@reddit

2021 LTSC still has couple years support so I'm taking my time.

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Wolfram_And_Hart@reddit

Last check we were 914 out of 1844

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Vivid_Mongoose_8964@reddit

W10 LTSC ftw baby!

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CeBlu3@reddit

60 to 70% done. Manufacturing company with some really old software. Thought it would be worse, but surprisingly smooth sailing. We do have to upgrade some hardware, so that’s slowing us down some.

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Hefty-Room-297@reddit

It's not a trend, it's just the fact that Win10 is going EOS

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Champagne28Papi@reddit

You are a few years late for the party. We’ve been on W11 since 21H2.

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avisgoth@reddit

Over 80% done,so a few hundred left. No issues to speak of.

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jsand2@reddit

I would say we are 80%-90% done in a company of 100+ end stations. We had to buy around 1/3 new PCs. The ones replaced, needed upgraded anyway.

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GardenWeasel67@reddit

We started a year ago

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Coldsmoke888@reddit

Global, massive org checking in.

On Friday we were told all users on compliant devices would receive in-place upgrade scheduling notices and client images were finally dropped on our resource servers.

Now… we scramble for 4 months with any software development or hardware issues.

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mrbios@reddit

450 machines done, another 120 between now and October. About 150 that we'll be paying for the extended security updates for .... Education so we get that super cheap year 1. Shouldn't need years 2 or 3 as we'll get those incompatible ones replaced next year.

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Hacky_5ack@reddit

Easy with ninjaone

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ParoxysmAttack@reddit

Going fine. Users a little bitter, but the deployment itself went pretty smoothly.

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rthonpm@reddit

If you're just starting this late, where has your Security been? At this point all general client Windows machines are 100% 11. The only Windows 10 systems are special purpose equipment and will be segmented off their general networks if they haven't already been.

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