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Windows Office Hours: August 18, 2022

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Thursday, Aug 18, 2022, 08:00 AM PDT
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Get answers to your questions about managing the Windows devices used by remote, onsite, and hybrid workers across your organization, and keeping those devices up to date effectively! Get tips on rolling out Windows 11 across your organization! Learn how to cloud attach your on-premises workloads!

Join us every third Thursday for Windows Office Hours, our continuing series of live Q&A for IT professionals here on Tech Community.

During office hours, we will have a broad group of product experts, servicing experts, and engineers representing Windows, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Microsoft Intune, Configuration Manager), security, public sector, FastTrack, and more. They will be standing by here -- in chat -- to provide guidance, discuss strategies and tactics, and, of course, answer any specific questions you may have.

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Note: This is a chat-based event. There is no video or live meeting component. Questions and answers will appear below in the Comments section.
Heather_Poulsen
Updated Oct 12, 2022
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  • Heather_Poulsen's avatar
    Heather_Poulsen
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    Aug 18, 2022

    Windows Office Hours have concluded. Thanks for joining us today. Did you enjoy the event? Let us know in the Comments and join us next time here in the Tech Community!

  • treestryder's avatar
    treestryder
    Iron Contributor
    Aug 18, 2022

    If I may... I have started a shared spreadsheet for the community to share their experiences with "Autopilot Ready" PCs, Peripherals and Software. My hope is it will help admins find the rare gems and push our industry to get with the modern device management program.

    https://1drv.ms/x/s!AgG_boPR-xfWjN9i2Z_y_8ErM6t--A

     

    #AutopilotReady

  • IT_Ninja's avatar
    IT_Ninja
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 18, 2022
    In Windows Updates, can you explain what optional drivers are? Will they be a part of Windows in the future?
    • David_Guyer's avatar
      David_Guyer
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      Aug 18, 2022
      Hi David, Whether a driver is optional or required is determined by the driver publisher, and for various reasons. An optional driver is not necessarily going to become required in the future. Some have fixes for very specific, or rare issues. Often BIOS updates will be published to WU as optional, for example. -David
  • treestryder's avatar
    treestryder
    Iron Contributor
    Aug 18, 2022

    Our organization has not become comfortable with all 66% of our compatible PCs upgrading to Windows 11. In part because of the change to the Start Menu, but news of things like drive corruption does not help. To ease into this transition, is there a simple way to make the upgrade to Windows 11 something the user can opt into?

    • treestryder's avatar
      treestryder
      Iron Contributor
      Aug 22, 2022

      For those reading along, here is Aria's response via Twitter:


      Today, if you want to make it opt-in optional for end users you can either:
      Not use any offering policies (deferrals / target version) OR Enroll the device in Release Preview

      • treestryder's avatar
        treestryder
        Iron Contributor
        Aug 26, 2022
        Excluding a PC from its Update Ring policy did allow it to present the user an option to upgrade to Windows 11. It is too bad we cannot also enforce a Quality Update Deadline.
    • AriaUpdated's avatar
      AriaUpdated
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      Aug 18, 2022
      What management tool are you using? There are a few different ways to accomplish this. 🙂
      • treestryder's avatar
        treestryder
        Iron Contributor
        Aug 18, 2022
        How might I enable opt-in Windows 11 upgrades with Intune?
  • Heather_Poulsen's avatar
    Heather_Poulsen
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    Aug 18, 2022

    Don't be shy. This is a great forum to ask your questions. Post now in the Comments.

  • Ranjithckm7880's avatar
    Ranjithckm7880
    Occasional Reader
    Aug 18, 2022
    Hello, Based on recent M365 Apps for Enterprise update issue, How do we avoid such issues? Any test plan/advise to improve M365 patching? https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-365-version-2206-update-pulled-due-to-apps-crashing/?
  • Heather_Poulsen's avatar
    Heather_Poulsen
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    Aug 18, 2022

    Welcome to Office Hours – let’s get started! To submit a question, use the Comments field above. 

     

    We are here (hello!!) for the next hour to answer any questions you may have around managing Windows updates, deployments, and devices (remote or on-prem) or updating/upgrading to Windows 11—and to provide help with specific issues as well as tips on cloud attach, update velocity, policy management, and more.

    Here is a list of who is in the virtual office today:

     

    Let's get started!

  • Heather_Poulsen's avatar
    Heather_Poulsen
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    Aug 18, 2022

    Windows Office Hours start in 1 hour. Get your questions in early! Post in the Comments now.

  • hudaya91's avatar
    hudaya91
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 18, 2022
    please add to the list for ASUS ROG GL752VW with Intel Core i7-6700HQ CPU
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