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Five key learnings from Microsoft’s Windows 11 upgrade

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For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d4z5N5XCsA.

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.

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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 “smoothest deployment” in the history of Windows releases by supplying a single, simple plan for IT admins to follow.

“In our experience, with every passing day, we are noticing the value it delivers in their day-to-day lives—working remotely or working in-person,” Jaysingh says.

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