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January 21st, 2025 21:15
Win 11 Fleet Upgrade Assistance
We have a client with around 700 Dell laptops/desktops which are still on Windows 10. I am trying to assist them in their needed upgrade to Win 11. The first order of business, of course, is determining which of these machines is capable of being upgraded to Win 11. It would seem to me that Dell would/should be able to provide assistance with this, in the form of either a vetted csv of my clients machines Service Tags/Serial Numbers, or a full listing of my clients machines with model number/ST/Serial number and a csv of the HCL for Win 11 with model/serial number. Is anyone aware of anything like this that Dell Fleet Management provides?
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Michael
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February 6th, 2025 21:56
There's Dell OpenManage if the owner is using that -- there are also Windows scripts that can be run if they're centrally managed (on active directory, for example).
There's more to the upgrade than you might think -- a Windows 10 install that's been done in legacy mode can't be upgraded without a ground-up rebuild.
Microsoft has a readiness tool as well.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/how-to-check-if-your-device-meets-windows-11-system-requirements-after-changing-device-hardware-f3bc0aeb-6884-41a1-ab57-88258df6812b
Windows 11 requires an 8th gen Intel minimum (or equivalent Ryzen) CPU with TPM 2.0 enabled and with a GPT filesystem on the storage drive.
If these are as-deployed machines, upgrading them one at a time will be exceedingly labor intensive -- your client should do an analysis as to whether new systems are in order (the oldest of them with the 8th gen CPUs is heading toward seven years of age).
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