{"id":9638,"date":"2023-02-10T14:15:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T22:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/?p=9638"},"modified":"2023-10-05T14:04:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T21:04:54","slug":"five-key-learnings-from-microsofts-windows-11-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/five-key-learnings-from-microsofts-windows-11-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Five key learnings from Microsoft\u2019s Windows 11 upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Five key learnings from Microsoft\u2019s Windows 11 upgrade\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1d4z5N5XCsA\"><\/iframe><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1d4z5N5XCsA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1d4z5N5XCsA<\/a>, select the &#8220;More actions&#8221; button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select &#8220;Show transcript.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: -5px;\"><em>Watch as Biswa Jaysingh, a principal group program manager on the Microsoft Digital Employee Experience team, shares five key learnings from releasing Windows 11 across Microsoft. Jaysingh shares how understanding your hardware environment plays a critical role in a good upgrade and explains how existing tools provided by Microsoft make it easy to prepare for a new release.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7561 alignright\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/11\/Microsoft-Digital-Video-300x120.png\" alt=\"Microsoft Digital video\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/11\/Microsoft-Digital-Video-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/11\/Microsoft-Digital-Video.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The most important lesson learned during this deployment, according to Jaysingh, was the use of Windows Update for Business deployment service. Jaysingh shares how the tool helped create the \u201csmoothest deployment\u201d in the history of Windows releases by supplying a single, simple plan for IT admins to follow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our experience, with every passing day, we are noticing the value it delivers in their day-to-day lives\u2014working remotely or working in-person,\u201d Jaysingh says.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-top: 24px; margin-right: 24px; padding: 15px; background-color: #f5f5f5;\"><strong>Check out the entire Moving Microsoft to Windows 11 series:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7633 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/10\/blog_series-150x150.png\" alt=\"Series\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/10\/blog_series-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/10\/blog_series-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/10\/blog_series.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/microsoft-tries-windows-11-on-for-size-and-likes-the-fit\/\">Microsoft tries Windows 11 on for size and likes the fit<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/insidetrack\/unpacking-microsofts-speedy-upgrade-to-windows-11\">Unpacking Microsoft\u2019s speedy upgrade to Windows\u00a011<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/insidetrack\/blog\/windows-11-boosts-employee-engagement-at-microsoft\/\">Windows 11 boosts employee engagement at Microsoft<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/insidetrack\/employees-are-at-the-heart-of-microsofts-internal-windows-11-upgrade\">Employees are at the heart of Microsoft\u2019s internal Windows 11 upgrade<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/insidetrack\/five-key-learnings-from-microsofts-windows-11-upgrade\">Five key learnings from Microsoft\u2019s Windows 11 upgrade<\/a> (this blog post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1d4z5N5XCsA, select the &#8220;More actions&#8221; button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select &#8220;Show transcript.&#8221; Watch as Biswa Jaysingh, a principal group program manager on the Microsoft Digital Employee Experience team, shares five key learnings from releasing Windows 11 across Microsoft. 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