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Privacy policy. This topic provides a summary of available upgrade paths to Windows You can upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 or a later operating system. This includes upgrading from one release of Windows 10 to later release of Windows Migrating from one edition of Windows 10 to a different edition of the same release is also supported.
If you are also migrating to a different edition of Windows, see Windows 10 edition upgrade. Methods and supported paths are described on this page to change the edition of Windows. These methods require that you input a license or product key for the new Windows edition prior to starting the upgrade process.
Edition downgrade is also supported for some paths, but please note that applications and settings are not maintained when the Windows edition is downgraded. Windows 10 version upgrade : You can directly upgrade any General Availability Channel version of Windows 10 to a newer, supported General Availability Channel version of Windows 10, even if it involves skipping versions.
Work with your account representative if your current version of Windows is out of support. See the Windows lifecycle fact sheet for availability and service information. In-place upgrade from Windows 7, Windows 8. Windows 10 LTSC did not block this in-place upgrade path. This issue was corrected in the Windows 10 LTSC release, which only allows data-only and clean install options. Upgrade is supported using the in-place upgrade process using Windows setup.
You will need to use the Product Key switch if you want to keep your apps. Nickolaj has been in the IT industry for the past 10 years specializing in Enterprise Mobility and Security, Windows devices and deployments including automation.
Awarded as PowerShell Hero in by the community for his script and tools contributions. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Hello, I have the inplace upgrade working great. This, of course, is not true. I was wondering how I could prompt the user before that prompt to tell them to ignore that statement and that their data is safe.
Are you using the original install. Works great. Do you see any issues with this? For your version, you need to use the custom task sequences that Microsoft released.
If the package is version 1 the the TS cannot find content on the DP. Rediribute the Windows 10 image and bump the package to version 2 and it all starts working. Hi, Can I use my captured wim file of Windows 10 for inplace upgrade? I do not want to use default install. I want to use our gold image in which some applications are already installed. Hi, Thank you for this post, the upgrade works great. But, I had previously uninstalled built-in packages from my windows 10 upgrade package, like xbox and onedrive, these are reinstalled automatically when performing the OS upgrade.
Any way to avoid this? Is it possible to upgrade from Windows 8. Or do I have to do a complete rebuild of every laptop? Thank you. This can be done in many ways, I suggest that you look into this option. Regards, Nickolaj. Thank you for your response. And then do a second in-place upgrade from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 10 Enterprise? For instance by using dism. Hi Again.. We have Win7 in 5 languages for different locations. In Win 7, when a language pack is installed, it becomes default UI language for all users.
But when a language pack is installed in Win 10, it has to be made dafault manually. Please Help! Is it possible to upgrade from windows 7 to windows 10 using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.
After OS upgrade i get login screen windows and able to login, same time application upgrade is happening. I got Result Code — 0xC Is it because I am using licensed version of Win 7? Is there any way I can get an error string that would explicitly convey the error message? It will take a little hunting to find it. Thanks Joe. I read setuperr. I did some hunting and found it was due to wrong SKU. But it still thinks that the SKU is wrong. In the setupact. Also tryed to uninstall all applications.
Altho all hardware I tested on was HP. Would realy appriciate some help with this. It keeps assuming Pro when we are clearly using Enterprise. Just opened a case with MS today about it. Thanks for the post! How much time roughly needs to pass between Step 1 and Step 2? I guess that option is not available anymore. So, the only option for me is using the custom task sequence that is prepared by SCCM team. You need version 3 or greater to have PreSetup.
Windows 7 SP1 ships with PS v. In troubleshooting this, we were trying to figure out why it worked in Win 8. Thanks to axeshr3dder, his suggestion of looking into upgrading PS did the trick. If you look at the PreSetup.
We ran this line of code manually on a box running PS v. Upgrading to PS v. The TS now finishes successfully after upgrading PS to v. This section of code actually checks for the version of PS and would error out if not v. Where did you find the Presetup. This appears to be caused by a code defect in SCCM. I have a case open with Premier.
Premier support acknowledge the error. Only workaround is to remove WMF 5. In that blog post, there are multiple users having an issue with the TS not continuing post upgrade that you can see in the comments section.
A failure exit code of was returned. Any ideas? If you love Azure Automation and Security, you have probably heard that around April , you could start using Managed Identities in Azure Automation to access resources securely. This article will show why and how Email address:. Created by MSEndpointMgr. Powered by WordPress. Nickolaj Andersen. Overview With previously released version of Windows, the In-Place Upgrade scenario was never considered a reliable option to deploy the latest version.
The following scenarios describe that a bit more in detail: When you want to keep all or at least most existing applications When you do not plan to significantly change the device configuration for example, BIOS to UEFI or operating system configuration for example, x86 to x64, language changes, Administrators to non-Administrators, Active Directory domain consolidations To migrate from Windows 10 to a later Windows 10 release The latter of those statements becomes really important, and improves the future upgrades to the latest versions of Windows when Microsoft releases them.
Operating system language change You cannot leverage the upgrade process when attempting to go from one operating system base language to another. Changing SKU Changing the operating system version is not supported.
