To make it easier for you to plan for, test, and validate Windows 11 in your environment—and prepare your end users and management teams for a familiar, but fresh user experience—we’ve created two robust and downloadable kits.
The updated Windows 11 and Office 365 Deployment Lab Kit contains a complete lab environment including evaluation versions of Windows 11 Enterprise, Windows Server 2022, and a collection of tools which allow you to test and conduct a proof of concept for Windows 11 deployment. The Windows 11 Onboarding Kit provides a collection of materials that you can use to help prepare your users and ensure that they get the most out of Windows 11.
Windows 11 brings many new features to IT professionals and knowledge workers. And as with anything new, there are also new things for IT administrators to learn.
I’m sure you are already familiar with the large collection of documentation available to help you deploy Windows 11 across your organization. With the Windows 11 Onboarding Kit, our goal is to also provide you with the materials you need to prepare, educate, and support your end users in their Windows 11 journey.
From years of deploying major operating system updates to a globally diverse and highly mobile workforce, Microsoft has learned that successfully transitioning to a new technology requires planning ahead with thoughtful and proactive communications, deploying the upgrade with expertise and speed, and supporting employees with post-deployment training and materials. The Windows 11 Onboarding Kit can be used to support a Windows 11 deployment to all devices within a global enterprise. The materials facilitate employee adoption, promote best practices, and ensure a direct path to productivity.
The kit consists of three parts:
Documents in the onboarding kit are in both Word and PowerPoint formats so they can be easily customized with company logos and names, localized, and augmented with links to internal resources. The images can also be replaced. In addition, we have a collection of resources like whitepapers, datasheets, and demos for you to use as needed.
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Many IT professionals rely on a fully functioning test environment to ensure a smooth OS update or upgrade. The Windows 11 and Office 365 Deployment Lab Kit not only offers a set of labs and evaluation software to help plan for, test and validate a Windows 11 deployment, it helps you explore and test advanced desktop management scenarios as well. The labs cover Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, the Office Customization Tool, OneDrive, Windows Autopilot and more. Additionally, as an isolated environment, the lab is ideal for exploring deployment tool updates and testing your deployment-related automation.
The guide is divided into eight sections:
Our goal is to make the Windows 11 upgrade process as smooth as possible. We hope these kits help you go beyond our documentation by providing a fully independent test environment and materials to help employees get productive quickly on Windows 11.
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