Introduction

With adequate planning and preparation, your IT department can ensure a smooth transition to Windows 11 for your organization.

In the Plan module, you created deployment readiness criteria, evaluated organizational readiness, and documented remediation steps for items that aren’t quite ready.

In this module, we guide you through recommended tasks and deliverables that you need to accomplish in preparation for upgrading your organization to Windows 11. We recommend preparing operations, applications, infrastructure, configurations, devices, and users. Remember: the size and complexity of your organization will affect your approach to the overall goal.

By the end of this module, you’ll be able to prepare operations, applications, infrastructure, configurations, devices, and users for a Windows 11 deployment, validate readiness and remediate gaps using recommended tools, reports, and deliverables, and explain how deployment phases and rings are used to safely initiate a Windows 11 rollout.

Disclaimers

1. New Technology: The Projected Total Economic Impact™ of Windows 11 Cost Savings and Business Benefits Enabled by Windows 11. A Microsoft commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting. July 2022. Quantified benefits reflect results over three years combined into a single composite organization that generates USD1 billion in annual revenue, has 2,000 employees, refreshes hardware on a four-year cycle and migrates the entirety of its workforce to Windows 11 devices.
2. Microsoft App Assure program data from October 2018 to February 2022.