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Windows 11 is coming to your organization - do you know how to deploy it? Richard talks to Johan Arwidmark about the need to get to work testing the deployment of Windows 11: Microsoft isn't giving us much of a choice about moving to it! Johan discusses the available deployment strategies, including Configuration Manager, Intune/Autopilot, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, and more. Odds are, you will have to make some changes to how you deploy Windows to make things go smoothly with Windows 11, so it's a good time to get testing!

Links:

• Windows 11
• Support for Windows 11 in Configuration Manager
• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
• Windows Autopilot
• Microsoft Intune
• PowerShell Deployment
• PSAppDeployToolkit

Recorded May 30, 2023

Does Windows need a package manager? Richard talks to Sarah Lean about Windows Package Manager, aka winget. Of course, there have been package managers for Windows before winget, and Sarah talks about her favorite, Chocolatey. But winget is destined to be a part of Windows itself and opens the door to some great deployment automation. The conversation also dives into exporting - making a copy of the manifest of applications currently on a workstation. Could we get to full local workstation localization, where you could build and re-build workstations on demand? Maybe some next-level hot-desk workstations are possible!

Links:

• Windows Package Manager on GitHub
• Chocolatey
• InTune, aka Microsoft Endpoint Manager
• AZCopy
• Techielass - Blog of Sarah Lean

Recorded August 13, 2021