BigFix & Windows 11

The HCL BigFix team is pleased to announce that BigFix is Windows 11 Ready! Our System Requirements page has been updated accordingly.

Windows 11 offers improved security, visual redesign, better multitasking and numerous other features. Organizations can continue to leverage BigFix to manage every endpoint, including those running Windows 11.

In anticipation of the rollout of Microsoft Windows 11, customers can use BigFix to ascertain which endpoints are appropriate for Windows 11 by surveying RAM, CPU, BIOS and Video as well as block unsanctioned endpoints from upgrading to Windows 11. For more information, including details for a Windows 11 Eligibility Report, please see our blog post at: https://blog.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/bigfix-is-windows-11-ready/

Once assessed, BigFix can be used to create a good user experience upgrading workstations to Windows 11 using Operating System Deployment (OSD). Please see New update in BigFix OS Deployment and Bare Metal Imaging site v102 - Windows 11 support for more information.

Remote Control 10.0 FP5 includes support for Windows 11.

Patch content for Windows 11 is now available (see some of the first examples of that here: Content Modification: Patches for Windows published 2021-10-22).

BigFix Compliance checklists are currently planned to be available for CIS/DISA 60-90 days after the benchmarks are published.

BigFix Inventory and BigFix Modern Client Management will support Windows 11 at a later date. We will update this post accordingly.

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Is the current 10.0.4 agent fully supported? Will there be an updated agent for Windows 11?

Our current plan is to support 10.0.4 Agents running on Windows 11 when it becomes GA.

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Will HCL be releasing a report/dashboard/analysis/etc that will assist with determining “compatible” endpoints? Understanding Microsoft has been vague on specifics, I know there will be minimum “generational” CPU specs, require a TPM 2.0 (and it be enabled), UEFI BIOS, and some sort of minimum RAM / disk space requirement associated. Having a dashboard would assist greatly!

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This is a must, hope that HCL will make this happen

You can see a preview through the BigFix Tech Advisors YouTube channel.

Windows 11 Readiness

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There is a Bigfix/Windows 11 readiness video on YouTube

Not had a chanc to look at it yet, though…

[Edit] Hah, beaten to the draw.

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In case anyone is interested, here is something I threw together for identifying the CPU Generation (for processors that follow that nomenclature) back when Microsoft was only describing CPU requirements in terms of generation. Now that they have actually provided specific supported CPU models for AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm it may be moot (but possibly useful in and of itself).

(concatenation "" of (parenthesized parts 1 of first matches (regex " i\d-(1?\d)") of it; (if (it contains (regex "(Bronze|Silver|Gold|Platinum) (3104|3106|5115|5117|5117F|5118|5119T|5120|5120T|5122|6122|6126|6126F|6126T|6128|6129|6130|6130F|6130H|6130T|6132|6134|6134M|6135|6136|6137|6138|6138F|6138P|6138T|6140|6140M|6142|6142F|6142M|6143|6144|6146|6148|6148F|6150|6152|6154|6162|8153|8156|8158|8160|8160F|8160H|8160M|8160T|8164|8165|8168|8170|8170M|8174|8176|8176F|8176M|8180|8180M|4106H|4108|4109T|4110|4112|4114|4114T|4116|4116T|4123)")) then "1" else nothing); (if (it contains (regex "(Bronze|Silver|Gold|Platinum) (3204|3206R|4208|4209T|4210|4210R|4210T|4214|4214R|4214Y|4215|4215R|4216|5215|5215L|5217|5218|5218B|5218N|5218R|5218T|5219Y|5220|5220R|5220S|5220T|5222|6208U|6209U|6210U|6212U|6222|6222V|6226|6226R|6230|6230N|6230R|6230T|6234|6238|6238L|6238R|6238T|6240|6240L|6240R|6240Y|6242|6242R|6244|6246|6246R|6248|6248R|6250|6250L|6252|6252N|6254|6256|6258R|6262|6262V|6269Y|8253|8256|8260|8260L|8260Y|8268|8270|8274|8276|8276L|8280|8280L|8284|9221|9222|9242|9282)")) then "2" else nothing); (if (it contains (regex "(Bronze|Silver|Gold|Platinum) (4309Y|4310|4310T|4314|4316|5315Y|5317|5318H|5318N|5318S|5318Y|5320|5320H|5320T|6312U|6314U|6326|6328H|6328HL|6330|6330H|6330N|6334|6336Y|6338|6338N|6338T|6342|6346|6348|6348H|6354|8321HC|8351N|8352M|8352S|8352V|8352Y|8353H|8354H|8356H|8358|8358P|8360H|8360HL|8360Y|8362|8368|8368Q|8376H|8376HL|8380|8380H|8380HL)")) then "3" else nothing); parenthesized parts 1 of first matches (regex " Ryzen \d (\d)") of it; parenthesized parts 1 of first matches (regex " EPYC \d{3}(\d)") of it) of unique value of model names of processors) whose (length of (it as string) > 0) | "Unknown"

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Some unofficial content here: Windows 11 in-place upgrade content

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Not to point out we are behind, but will 9.5.18 agents report correctly on 21H2?

The minimum Agent version for Win 11 21H2 is 10.0.4. For general reference on Platform support, please see https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0087327

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