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Windows Office Hours: August 18, 2022

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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 rol...
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Updated Oct 12, 2022
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treestryder
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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?

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treestryder
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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

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    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.
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Aug 18, 20228:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT