BigFix - Migrate to Windows 11

With Windows 10 end of life coming in October 2025 its time for organizations to start migrating off of Windows 10 and upgrade to Windows 11. Upgrading to Windows 11 with BigFix can be done easily with the BigFix lifecycle module and also provide a wonderful user experience. Stop the user frustration with upgrade and rollbacks at 98% wasting users time and losing productivity. This guide will walk you through getting all the details ahead of time and troubleshoot most issues without any user intervention and ensure your upgrades will be successful.

Windows 11 has much more stringent system requirements than Windows 10. There could be hardware or BIOS changes needed in order for the device to be eligible to upgrade. With BigFix you have access to all of the devices and if they pass those expectations. 

Here is a list of the requirements for Windows 11 - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-system-requirements-86c11283-ea52-4782-9efd-7674389a7ba3

High level Windows 11 requires

TPM 2.0

Secure Boot Enabled in the BIOS

64 bit

UEFI Firmware

4GB of RAM or Higher

64 GB or larger storage

1GHz or higher processors with 2 cores

Graphics cards with compatibility with DirectX 12

To check your computers compatibility, you will need to go to

In the BigFix Console go to Dashboards – BES Inventory and License – Windows 11 In-place Upgrade Eligibility

This will display an overview of the status of your environment and where you can upgrade to Windows 11 without intervention. 

If you notice under graphics card you will see "probe not run"

You will need to run the Windows 11 upgrade eligibility fixlet probe in order to display the graphics card information

Go to Fixlets and Task – All - By site – BES Inventory and License

There you will see Windows 11 Upgrade Eligibility probe that you will need to take action and deploy to the computers you want to verify the graphics card

Once all sections pass you are ready to start the upgrade process for individual computers

In your console go to System Lifecyle

Go to OS Deployment and Bare Metal Imaging – Manage Images and Drivers – Image Library

Select Import Image

Select your Windows 11 ISO that you downloaded from your Microsoft volume license center and select Analyze

Once the Analyze completes select the upload button (This process can take a while depending on your network)

Once the image uploads you will see the Windows 11 ISO in your image library

Go to https://bigfix.me/analysis/details/2998651 and import the In-place upgrade failure analysis

Go to All Content

Go to Fixlets and Task

Find the Windows

Click on the Description Tab and select the Windows 11 iso that we uploaded earlier from the dropdown

Under Command Type click on the Check Only

Target a machine you would like to test the upgrade. This will check for any application conflict and driver conflicts ahead of time and download the needed files for the upgrade. This can be done without any user interaction. Now you can get the results of the machines that will upgrade successfully.

If the check completes successfully, you will now see the in-place upgrade – run upgrade only fixlet become relevant. This is the fixlet that will upgrade the computer from Windows 10 or Windows 11

For this deployment you can deploy it multiple ways. Why not give your users flexibility to run the upgrade at their leisure with our self-service app

Another option is you can Display an message to prompt the user for the upgrade and give them a deadline to upgrade.