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Deploy – Change Windows 11 Release with Ivanti EPM

Deploy Change Windows – Custom Windows 10/11 migration with scripts, multilingual ISOs, and controlled deployments through Endpoint Manager.

Deploy Change Windows – In this article, I will present a migration or version upgrade for Windows 10 or Windows 11.

Deploy Change Windows – I do not use patch management for this for the following reasons:

I like to customize my sources (at a minimum, adding netfx3)
I often need to manage multiple languages

Deploy Change Windows – Therefore, I will use a distribution package, which will allow me to handle drivers via the Portal Manager and control my deployments.

Deploy Change Windows –

Version Upgrade

Prerequisites

Deploy Change Windows – To begin:

We will need Windows 10 or Windows 11 sources
A serial number if not using VL sources (KMS)

Error with Multiple Languages

If the ISO language does not match the OS language, the setup will not migrate your applications.

Deploy - Change Windows 11 Release with Ivanti EPM screenshot

You may also see this type of error message (warning)

Multi-Language Sources

Deploy Change Windows – To create a multi-language ISO, you can:

Follow this tutorial: Add multilingual support to Windows Setup
Create a multi-index install.wim (one index per language). From experience, I prefer using this solution.

Installation Scripts

Deploy Change Windows – https://github.com/DavidWuibaille/Repository/tree/main/Windows/Windows10/ScriptUpgradeBatch

upgrade_Install.cmd => main script
upgrade_setupcomplete.cmd => end of migration script
upgrade_GetPendingReboot.cmd => script to check for pending reboots
upgrade_GetWim.cmd => secondary script to list the install.wim indexes
upgrade_Cleanup.cmd => secondary script to clean up (free up disk space)

Distribution Package

upgrade_Install.cmd

Deploy Change Windows – This script should be adapted to your needs.

Deploy Change Windows – For multi-language use (with indexes), modify the following:

Set IndexWIM=0
IF /I %culture% EQU en-US Set IndexWIM=1
IF /I %culture% EQU es-ES Set IndexWIM=2
IF /I %culture% EQU fr-FR Set IndexWIM=3
IF /I %culture% EQU it-IT Set IndexWIM=4
IF /I %culture% EQU pt-PT Set IndexWIM=5

Deploy Change Windows –

Deploy Change Windows – For single-language use, remove /installfrom and /imageindex:

"%SourceISO%setup.exe" /quiet /EULA accept /NoReboot /auto Upgrade /installdrivers c:drivers /DynamicUpdate Disable /postoobe "%SourceISO%upgrade_setupcomplete.cmd"

Deploy Change Windows – Note: The /EULA accept option is related to Windows 11; for Windows 10, this option is not necessary.

Creating the EPM Package

We will create a simple batch deployment task containing the Windows 10 sources.

Do not forget the “Additional files”

Also add the Windows 10 logos for the Workspace

Scheduled Tasks

Overview

Deploy Change Windows – I will create 3 tasks:

A task for caching
A task for the Application Portal => simplifies pilot systems
A standard deployment task

Reboot Management

In the agent configurations, I created a configuration to force reboot requests. Options available:
- Add a specific message for this migration
- Manage automatic reboots for users not logged in