🔴Windows 11: Instantly Find Which Computers Meet The Requirements

hey everybody i'm lex i'm jordan with pdq.com windows 11. do i need to say anymore it's officially out october 5th october so what next week next week next week now we've had the pleasure of perusing and playing and uh you know some interesting things we found with this uh i don't know first should we just jump in go ahead man so the first part is the beta is out which will instead of saying unidentified we'll actually give you windows 11. the full release is coming out on october 5th we just didn't want to make it public before the software is public just in case yeah yeah but if you want to see the 11 now you can go with beta and it's going to work that is with the inventory right with him yep now the other thing is kind of interesting is that long list of prerequisites to be able to run this so uh yeah they said that after the fifth it's not going to be everyone has it available right away i mean you can download if you want but the you should update to 11 is going to roll out based on undefined fuzzy math but they hope they hope mid 2022 everyone that is eligible has it but as far as the i like fuzzy map the decisions behind it we don't know they just said uh they got this so if it shows up instantly for you hooray all right so things you do after that though right i mean it is pretty aggressive it caused a big stir for the requirements the first thing i thought was upgrade that's all i can think of hardware oh great yep so it was i mean it starts out with uh four gigs of memory and i think 64 gigs of hard drive space that's not pretty typical yeah but but then there's things like uh the graphics card has to work with directx 12. that's not a huge one but there's there's a difference between a home setup and an office setup that's true the the hardware refresh time is going to be different uh the tpm has to be on they say one point two works but if you try to upgrade with one point two it puts up a sign it's like we don't recognize okay well tpm and we just we said home machines work machines i would say probably ninety percent of home machines do not have tpm what is tpm let's just make sure everyone's on the same page something trusted something module platform there you go something i had to write is something is a it basically allows a sysadmin to get in using an ip address and work with the bios those kind of things yeah it's just about it's a security option basically with more modern uh video cards and motherboards motherboards motherboards it's going to be there i think within the last four years it's pretty commonplace but if it's anything older than that it's no guarantee now i would say i don't know man i i remember looking at some some motherboards that didn't have it thinking i'll never use that right but that is true uh and like i said 1.2 they say will work but it's going to throw up a warning it has 1.2 if we don't recommend this they want 2.0 or later okay i think two windows latest currently but later is implied uh then the last thing is the wddm which is the driver for the graphics card i believe is it has to be 2.0 or greater that's a pretty tall order man i mean to be able to determine everything on the machines and guess what guys pdq inventory and out of jordan's brilliant mind has come up with a scanner to determine whether your machines can actually handle windows 11. yep so we're we're checking for the the five-minute thing we're not looking at the the ram or the cpu that's already in inventory so you can include that in a group i basically i built a powershell scanner that will find the other five to make sure that you are qualified okay uh so if we go through and i kind of have this uh one line here commented out so the first part is is the processor there's a list of approved processors uh there's three different pages in microsoft that has all of them uh they're all i mean the sites don't the site itself doesn't change but the information in there might okay so what i did is i built a scanner to basically go to those four of those three sites pull down a list of all of the processes that are approved and make a csv out of it okay normally i would have just included this on the original scanner but there's a part in here right here the results parsed html i have that where that's how i use it to find the data yeah if they have never run the initial setup of internet explorer invoke web request is going to fail saying you have to use this basic okay so to use this now is this available for everybody uh yes this is up on the uh the bonus content okay i'm gonna get it cleaned up i started this on tuesday so it's a bit rough i'm gonna get it cleaned up we're gonna try to get it in the repo but you can go to bonus content and still use it right now so you can grab this just make sure you've at least run internet explorer set up once yes okay and we put the uh the link in the chat by the way all right yeah so the i'm using parse html which works great to grab everything the problem is if they've never run internet explorer you have to use a flag called use basic parsing i believe something along those lines which makes it so the parse html is blank yeah so i couldn't grab it with that one so if everyone in your environment has run the initial setup on internet explorer you can just put this in the main script and have a grab it all there okay uh our lab environment that was not the case so i built it separately i pulled everything down and i built the csv and then i just included that csv in the scanner for the comparison excellent all right so as it is once we get it we have the list we're going to go down the list and then we're going to grab this sim instance for this processor that's your processor and we only have uh intel processors but intel is like intel and then it has the name of the processor and then other information yeah i i can't guarantee that's the same for the other ones i just assume it's similar so i just have in here we're grabbing the the processor names we're comparing it to a string that's in there with asterisks on either side okay and as long as the core name is the same it will find it okay and also basically let you know if your processor is compatible jordan yes uh richard asks what if we have to remove ie or is what if we have removed i.e i think oh is that one i think that's what he was oh we've removed it didn't have removed there removed but um let's assume that it's ie is gone so uh the command itself the info because i haven't tried invoked web request where ie has been removed all i know is that the initial run so you can run this on a single machine that still has ie and it will grab it if not this was the first way that i got the function i am going to go back through and get it where i don't have to use the parsed so you can use the basic parsing yeah so if ie has been removed you just need to run that script on a machine that has it a single machine then you can use that csv anywhere until i get that fixed if until then it's kind of limited to that i'll find a way to get it without the parsed html section and get that up there and that's hopefully when we'll put it just right in the repost so we don't have to go through the bonus content and then they should be able to get the entire list cool all right uh and then the next one is uh the tpm which is this is the biggest failure that we're seeing on a lot of yeah it's on modern hardware more often than not it's there but anything older than four it's not likely to be there at all this this caused a big uproar in in different uh forums yeah uh so we're doing is we're we're trying the git tpm which basically if they don't have dpm the command is gonna fail so instead of having the air we're just gonna put it in the try so it ignores the error if it does have it then we're going to go into once again same instance and grab the specific version and if you look at that one it has the spec version and then it's like 1.2 comma and then like a whole bunch of different letters so we're splitting that out and just grabbing the first one which in this case we're looking for we have set up on top 1.2 okay but you can change that to 2.0 if you want the more efficient method and and all we're doing is each one of these we're doing the test if it passes we're setting the value to true true if not we're defaulting to false anything false means it's not it's not going to be good to go uh the same thing with uh uefi this is basic bios is kind of outdated usa is more secure it just goes and checks confirm secure ufi it's the same thing we're going to try so if it fails we're going to ignore the error but we're still going to come back as false continue on if it passes it sets it to true all right and then directx 12 uh what we're doing is we're running dx diag which if it can't find dx dag that means your their directx is five or newer okay so it's not it's not it's not going to pass uh anything later than five the dx diag exists all we're doing is we're taking it we're exporting it to uh csv or i'm sorry a text document and then we're starting the stream reader right here and we're going to read line by line and we're going to look for two lines one is ddi version and the other one is driver model and this gets us if directx is 12 or if the driver model is above 2.0 uh i'm just assuming directx is going to install the latest version by windows update so if your machine can handle it yeah the machine can handle it so if it can handle 12 and your machines are up to date 12 is on there uh if so if you run it and it doesn't have 12 you can try doing windows update against a machine and it should grab it but the the latest version your video card can handle should install based on windows update and it should stay to the latest or not all right and it's the same thing here ddi version and uh wddm which is driver version as long as they're over they meet the requirements of above two or what or above 12. you're good and it sets all that and it just returns it of true or false for all five so we'll just run this against the one machine for now just so we can kind of see the results so you ran this against guinness yep it takes a bit and again this is a vm which makes it a little bit different which i'll cover so what is the the thing about vms while this is running well well things a lot of things that are required may be eligible on the host that has the virtual machine tpm for example yeah tpm it doesn't show in this case ddm i think is 1.2 on guinness and the tpm is false uh if i run this against sam which is our windows 11 machine it actually returns these exact same values because the tpm and the wddm can be set on your host level and as long as that's acceptable it will be just fine for your vms yeah so okay this the scan will work more if you have physical machines if it's vm you're going to be upgrading from your host anyway so it matters less to have a scanner like this true true all right um and that's that's pretty much it just run this one against all machines which i believe we've we've done we'll come in here and we'll just take a look at uh clyde yeah so clyde has the processor i did not size that window i apologize oh you're good i got you oh you got that one yeah so yeah clyde can't take direct decks ufis it only has a processor that's acceptable so clyde's going to fell so it won't work yeah so i've run this against all of them and so the best way to find the list of all the machines is we're going to build a new dynamic collection name it upgrade available upgrade possible possible yeah and then it's just we're going to come in here and we're going to set it to that powershell scanner windows 11 is what i named it and i just copy that one a couple of times call it upgrade not i'm not entirely impossible not entirely impossible upgrade at some point can be done if you so choose so we're just going to choose all five of those so all five of those absolutely have to well have to be true borrowing the vms for them to be able to upgrade yeah and if it's a vm you're going to be upgrading from the host level anyway so it's it's different but this is a hard drive and then the last two we're going to grab is we're going to use the computer table and because that's where we have the memory let's see if we can't find this one live here we go memory is greater than or equal to let's just say 3.9 there you go that'll give you four we don't want eb's though let's do a 3.9 and then the last one is going to be logical disk we're going to look at the the hard drive cable i'd be surprised if you didn't have you know the the memory and the logical disk at this point but just sit better safe than sorry a logical disk and then we're looking for what free space in gigabytes and then equals but we want greater than and we'll just say 564 on this one fair enough okay before you three oh oh you did it i was gonna say how many would you guess were available i've tested this thoroughly so i knew it would have been eight okay there's eight eight of our machines can handle windows 11. but if you look at this one all eight of those are physical machines so a lot of them that are failing are because the tt the tpm and the mddm are showing different than the host yeah um just the interesting interesting factor yeah just a it is a good factor and a good way to test on that one like guinness has uefi enabled a lot of our vms don't and so those ones would absolutely fill in an upgrade should we do a question before we uh dig into actual windows 11 absolutely dear lex and jordan last i checked pdq see windows 11 beta os says unidentified when is this coming sincerely m this is going to be released uh just prior to october 5th isn't it yeah so if you install the beta beta that's out right now it's available now inventory data yeah yeah inventory if you're waiting for what we do simultaneous release now that's for products if uh if you want the official release october 5th we're going to release ours i believe the same day as windows 11 is considered public yep you want to do another question or should we show the coolness of windows 11. don't you go ahead and show the air quotes coolness i just oh you start laughing i start laughing because we went over this yesterday and i'm like okay so to be fair we can't see what's under the hood we don't know what improvements we made there but as far as the regular improvements then the changes that you've noticed noticeable it feels like a feature upgrade that they're just calling windows 11. we got to talk about my my favorite which is the centering of the taskbar i i honestly believe it's an abomination it's abomination they did this as a red herring anyone that goes to 11 is going to be so focused on the center task bar that's what they're going to anything else like other things that may make them upset they can ignore because center task bar can take all the focus and they actually have built in by default uh taskbar behavior where you can actually go straight to the left so they defaulted to center i am positive as to draw all of them just to draw and to be fair what has changed isn't that big of a deal like there's a lot of minor changes here some things are really cool we're going to go into but the center task bar that's to focus the rage of people that don't like the change when the the fix is built in is two clicks away okay all right well another amazing change to what is eleven would be oh well let's see notes are the rounded corners corners were they drawing inspiration from mac i was gonna say say i think there was a lawsuit uh well that was hardware though right rounded corners on phones wasn't an apple anyway anyway another so apple's lawsuit was based on rounded corners on hardware where this is an application rounded corner oh because i don't know if that makes a difference that's it looks nice it's not a sharp so so things like that for me i struggle with this because like i i prefer a dark theme but i don't set it just because i don't care enough to put in the effort of those clicks so like i see rounded corners and i just don't care yeah i'm with you you realize you only need to do it once right jordan i know but it's like three clicks away i don't want clicks all right the other thing it gets me is okay well you just shut that down i was gonna make a comment oh all right on that the icons are different yeah because actually what is opening this for oh you were opening that to show icons magic yeah so yeah i i kind of like the look they've added a splash of color it is splashy it is splashy now okay we got to get past okay get past the little nitpick stuff here because i can we can nitpick little things all day there actually is a couple of cool things but before that this is something that i absolutely loved initially and it got less cool the more i looked into it okay the first thing i did when i opened it up is open up a calculator just because it was there and it has this button here snaps it always on top i love that that's fantastic for using the calculator and i thought oh a whole bunch of their apps are going to have this and you can all the little things you use throughout the day no it is on only the calculator not just that it has to be the standard version of the calculator do you switch to programming or scientific you can't say it's always on top and that's the only one that works in these standard cabinets only calculated only standard when i first saw it i thought the depending on the app there's a lot of value in there and the more i dove into it the less phone app up in the corner always on top you know they're the less value they need to finish that because that would be cool yeah standard calculator only and that's it so it's something that i was excited for briefly and then got progressively less excited it's like a firecracker it didn't pop right okay all right so do i actually go over some of the things let's do some cool stuff some things i thought were really cool let's open up a couple of was the snap windows then yeah the snap windows we just need a couple of those open for it to work properly so if you hover over the maximize window you get the snap light so it used to be you'd hit the windows key and then an arrow direction and you could set the windows up to a certain size now if you hover over you can have this one has four because we're remoted in a single screen but on mine we had two screens i had six where you can just choose the snap uh like the one i had was three separate applications could be lined up vertically you can come in here we want to set this one to be that and then i'll just go snap snap and you can just select which application you want in there and it just it took it took what was already pretty handy and made it i like just a little bit better i like it because now i can identify where i want things to go and it does remember it's a really nice polar bear background that's how we know that i've opened up edge yeah but i do like the fact that it does now it does remember where you put it right yes so there are things even multiple windows the last window you had open when you uh when you open up the application or open up there again and if you lose a window if you unsnap it from a docking station instead of all of those screens floating over to your main screen it minimizes everything that wasn't in that screen those are both i like that that's awesome it feels like a common sense ad but i mean common sense isn't always common so i'll take it yeah the other thing it's interesting and again this is just from my testing and and you've seen this too certain things seem to run faster it's like there's something in the background it does feel like products are running faster on this and that is where i came from with the from what we can see it feels like a regular future upgrade for what's going in the background it absolutely does feel like it's just a little bit faster true one thing i kind of we skipped over with the task bar it's not just centered you can no longer set it to be up up on uh top or left it has to be on the button now and there's not a way around that that i can see i'm okay with that that's where a test bar belongs on the bottom i mean you can you sit there agree with that all day there's going to be a lot of anger maybe some people are just like ah yeah and then things like the i thought this was pretty cool they had a shortcut you could use to open up a different desktop now where now it's just a quick button you have there where you can open that now you have multiple desktops open i thought that was a pretty cool ad it was that was there in 10 but just quick button makes it a bit easier um you know that the windows app store like the bane of all sys admins existence that's back is it back so they have said that they have improved the the windows store and a lot of things have changed but what has not changed is the powershell command to remove it to remove it well that's a good so we'll just do that real quick we're going to do the fx package i just want to while he's doing this i don't i'm not even going to type in there okay i got to say this uh yeah you got to be kind of careful with what you remove there because some of those features some of those apps you know calculator i need it right some of them do have an effect widely so it's probably just best to get rid of the app store so people can't load stuff but what if i want to buy fortnite yeah buy it on your own time man yeah i mean maybe don't remove uh store on your personal machine but if it's in the business okay that's fair so all they did is i did get up x package windows store we're just going to make sure i'm actually grabbing it there we found it we don't want it we're going to pipe that in to remove does it really remove it or does it just hide it this will remove the windows store windows store only okay so if you don't specify anything it's going to find every apex package and it's going to remove every fx package that includes things like calculator or that might be useful yeah all right and you can see the windows source no longer on our taskbar below because we have removed it so they said there's a lot of improvements neat the way to remove it has not changed and that's awesome that terminal i love the terminal the windows are all the new terminal that's awesome so it used to be if you'd right click on the start menu this right here would be it was initially command prompt then it became the ise or powershell now it is windows terminal which defaults to powershell the nice thing is you can set the config file you can actually do command prompt you can do the powershell terminal you can even do wsl on the subsystem for linux and there's also you can do like an azure plugin so yeah windows terminal i don't know if you've played with that it used to be you have to go out and find that and install it it's not there by default and it is very customizable and it is awesome fantastic quick question does this powershell command remove the windows store on all users profiles so that's going to be for the logged on profile for apex packages the problem with things you can either run that from deploy against logged on users or there is an all user's flag for the longest time all users was only forget it didn't exist for remove it does not exist for remove there's just you have to call out a specific type of package on that one it's been a long time since we there's a webcast we did on that you absolutely can remove for all users you just have to do a little bit of customization on that one so you need to find that webcast yeah see if you can't find that one i think when i first did it live i also made a mistake and we had to reshoot that one yeah so yeah it's uh by by default that's going to be logged on user all users will just do is just forget you cannot pipe it into all users but you have to specify package type and i can't remember off my head exactly which one can't be done it can be done it can be done and it's it's very useful to have to to get rid of a lot of there's a lot of bloat it's a lot of bloat that's a good point good point uh aesthetics on this that's a pretty nice flowery thingy on the background there yeah backgrounds are background yeah background so there are a lot more of your available settings available within the settings window now they started moving to having a specific design there's not everything's there but more is now the big thing is you can remove widgets so i don't know about every other site on ours we have i can't i can't say what we named it but we removed things that we don't like with windows 10 which includes widgets yeah that may have changed enough that if you have something that's cleaning up your image of windows 10 you're going to have to probably redo your group policies that are doing that oh really specifically for 11. like they have this turn widgets off here but i don't know if that's exactly that just moves it from the the taskbar i don't know if it gets rid of it so it's probably there's there's something in there to probably get rid of widgets within group policy but it's not going to be the same as 10. so if you have windows 10 group policy to get it cleaned the way you want it you're probably going to have to revisit that with windows 11. what are the thoughts you have on windows 11 oh that that's all i have unless we have other questions okay i have a question for you before we do this you uh you gonna upgrade i already have have you i got permission to do it i needed i just wanted him to screw around with it or mess with it i'm not sure if that's allowed it's too late now i got to run live i got to run the powershell i think my machines are too old so yeah i ran it my my laptop passed and i upgraded and i mean it works i've for someone who cares a little about aesthetic like i do it's it's fantastic it is genuinely faster it seems to me i'm i'm happy with the change if i couldn't move the start menu to the left corner i might be a little bit grumpy about it but the rest is so far you're liking it yep excellent but should we uh i don't know speed round it yeah yeah let's go ahead and do some speed round some are relevant some less so gentlemen auto clean up of the repository in the works john s we don't have that by design yeah yeah here's the thing about the repository um let's say jordan and i are both working and so i put install files up and i get sidetracked pulled onto a different project anything in that repository that is not linked to a package that's in your deploy is going to register as an unused file okay and all actuality in that case it's just a file i haven't finished with yet so if jordan goes in and cleans that up you know could be stepping on me if i go in and clean it up you know and i step on so we didn't want to auto that because you know if you're not ready to delete something at least you get to eyeball it before it gets deleted the repo cleanup looks at if that installer is tied to a package not if you still have use for it yeah so it's just one where we didn't want to tread on other people's toes on that one so we leave it a bit more big you could write a powershell nah yeah i guess you could write a powershell to go do that i wouldn't but you could i mean that's based on access date that's a dangerous game yeah i just on the chat we had a question does windows 11 have a control panel it does i just opened it up if we want to do that share there you go control panel still exists boom now i don't have to ask that thank you all right any other questions yeah many more uh this is more of a comment than a question is it just me or does windows 11 look like a linux distro with uh which wants to meme mac os matrix rocker so they've been windows have been moving towards a linux type they've been working with the ubuntu yeah yeah they they like a lot of the linux but they don't want the the same uh they want to keep the gui yeah they want to keep the gui um does it look like it yeah it depends on the uh gooey use for your linux i mean i use x-force for mine so it looks like whatever i wanted to look like but yeah i don't know it is noticeable yeah i can see where you say that all right next question let's do it dear lex and jordan is there finally a check all devices for updates feature in device manager or elsewhere mike f um i hadn't even messed with that one so i'm not sure i would i would enjoy that if there was let's uh take a look at update see what we can find it's going to windows update now see if we can find it uh pause update it doesn't look like it's very similar to what it used to be yeah it doesn't look like there's a whole lot of changes to that one see get me up to date restart as soon as possible that seems aggressive download updates over metered connections yeah it doesn't look like there's uh what you're looking for quite on on that one quite yet that's a bummer that would have been awesome that would have been cool all right next question hey guys how do you disable multiple desktops student computers matthew c who i i don't have a good ever thought that's on my head yeah i didn't i think that's the very first time i've ever had a reason or compelling reason to actually disable multiple desktops i i will look into if that is possible and if it is we will do not a webcast but a video video on how to disable that that's a good question yeah so i wish i had a better answer but i will research that for sure that's an awesome question all right dear lax and jordan how do you find the context menus are conventional options in the immediate menu or buried in sub menus chain m um so a lot of it is like the similar settings menu where there's not all kind of they do put on top like a cookie crumb i guess we'll we'll go into our settings here we'll say system and then sound it kind of puts a cookie crumb thing up top now but as far as finding it that's not any easier than it was yeah i hope you find your way back now yeah you can go back good luck going forward yeah yeah all right this is a long one and it's about jordan's favorite subject print nightmare after applying the microsoft update blah blah we get machines with a corrupt file that needs fixed by running sfc scan now otherwise you will still get printer error nerd nerd when installing a printer from a print server anyway to identify what file is getting corrupt so it can be replaced via pdq sincerely durell s um i have not put the updated term in a corrupt file wow yeah so the the error message doesn't tell you which file is corrupted i wouldn't know where to start with that one i mean why they're they're making us look bad with questions today they are killing us yeah i i honestly boy i see stump the chump yes it says sec scan logs will show the corrupted file so if the logs have the corrupted file all you need is an uncomfortable i don't know where you'd go about getting an unencrypted version of that though but you could push it out with deploy do a file copy on it yeah yeah replace all that but um i've never looked through those logs to find that so if you can find it we can absolutely push it out for you tracking it down seems like something that uh not this one right now next question all right let's keep this straight guys some ms apps only come from the store so why remove it if it's needed in m well i happily remove it because i thankfully need none of those apps it depends on your environment if you have nothing specifically in the store you need in your environment so tell me if you remove the store you still can't install apps or can you install them using powershell in the background if they are still apex packages you could find them it's just uh like installing an apex package that's been removed is a lot more difficult than removing like you have to there's a lot of specific information that goes into that one true true but i mean we're talking the store remove the store but i can still install the app in the background using powershell yeah i would assume i've never gone into the install to double check i would assume powershell can do it because that's my assumption for all things i'm just assuming my thought is this right as an admin you want to not have people installing anything on your machines that you're not aware of right yeah so that's why i would remove it right now hopefully and i haven't tested this either i think you can install fx well there's also i remove it just because i am not a fan and we don't need it you i believe there are group policy settings that restrict users access to it but still leaves it in place if that's new but for me there's nothing from it that i've ever needed so i happily remove it because it's that easy if you do need it i would recommend looking into group policy to restrict users from accessing that way you still can push it from your policy i'm just a control freak yeah i just don't want anyone installing anything without me knowing about it yeah okay yeah so i guess that one if you do need it yeah block block users and still have access that way all right let's keep going disable package in the plans for the future chris m i believe you should be able to let me open up deploy disable a package oh you can disable this individual stuff disable the steps so if you disable the steps i mean on the schedule it might still go out and deploy but with nothing there it's just going to go out there and say yeah it's going to deploy nothing there's no steps remember yeah the other thing i guess you could do you can go make a schedule you can put a uh condition on it that nothing qualifies for and then it's pretty much disabled at that point you know only install this on windows 11. so let's uh i can get one of these to open so let's say i've taxed our system thinking about it there we go so disable chrome steps i would go into that one's pre-packaged when i go into conditions and do it and from the conditionals from conditions and then versions just uh just remove everything i'll remove them all there you go there you go we'll let it save that guy yes so for uh auto download packages it looks like we probably can't no i had no idea that is a can you disable from here so i guess at that point it's probably better to disable the schedule to send it out instead of the package but if you have multiple package to a schedule then you're looking at a dicey time yeah removing it clarified in the chat a little bit simple care oh dead package delete them dude don't leave them hanging if if it's out there someone will deploy it i swear someone will so yeah if it's a dead package deleting not only gets it out of your sight out of mind but it allows the auto the cleanup the repository cleanup to remove the install files that can take up a lot of space you know they just mark them for removal yeah so the only thing you could do you could make a folder and say do not install and hope everyone listens to you and stick it in that folder or i suppose if it's uh if you're in a server client you can have your specific folder for your login you can move all of those in there where no one can even see them in the private folder here you can do that too that's a few options but as far as just a flat disable i mean if you're not using anymore i just say get rid of it completely oh dead because it's still in development if it's still in development i wouldn't recommend going into the server and then you'll have a private folder based on your logon yeah and then you can move on here move that ready for everybody yeah all right looks like we've got about three more hey guys and deploy are there any plans to allow custom reporting like in inventory thank you chris m i honestly i i don't think there really is i mean deployment reports are pretty straight up like did it deploy did it fail right that's what inventory is for for everything else right so yeah i don't think there's plans for that and inventory be the better place to do it anyway more information more details about what's going on there so yeah i think it's just one of those better together we'd just be duplicating effort true here's one for jordan because it says powershell jordan is there a powershell command that can be deployed to force windows updates k1 actually in our powershell repo for the powershell scanner there's already one out there that will go and force updates and there's a flag in there for if you have a wss server or not and it basically will look at that machine to see which updates it is missing and update those for you very cool yeah so it can be done in powershell and it's already been written for you if you look at the repo and our final question of the day i've added a new scanner using your win11 compatibility ps1 file but when scanning a machine i'm getting lots of errors saying the ampersand and the thingy character are not allowed help andrew let's see uh my guess is when i pull down the list because there's uh copyright and trademarks next to nvidia or intel and that shows up in the csv my guess is coming from there so uh you you could change the where it's exporting the csv where you're selecting only the model and that's just going to be all the model names it might remove all those bad characters but i didn't see anything on that on mine i'd have to see to actually give it a a live run just to see what happens did i actually start scanning it just gotta scan left alright or scroll left so if it's doing that my guess is for some reason it's not grabbing just the model uh field within the csv you might want to try just selecting only the model just because the the make and the name like that we don't care about i just care about specifically that one column i just didn't trim it down because i didn't see the need but i i didn't run into any of those errors on mine so i'd be curious to see it um if you want to open up a ticket where that's not working you can take a look just because without seeing that error myself i'm not sure where it's coming from that is frustrating i'm so excited for that one oh well you know can't see everything can i throw in a noob question absolutely man if i go home and upgrade to windows 11 well it that's not going to affect any of my apps or anything that i already have installed on my machine right or will it you know i would like to say it shouldn't but i'm not going to stand up and say it won't man so it doesn't by default like wipe your system clean to upgrade well it's not going to it's not going to remove the apps or anything but as far as compatibility will play nice i don't think if we're looking at actual requirements i don't think any video games require directx 12 yet okay which which windows does so that means it shouldn't impact that that's a hard one to answer because each game is separate my guess is there's going to be a lot of patches coming out for games in the near future to handle that so if you're worried about it i wouldn't be an early adopter at home okay i'm gonna go with it shouldn't yeah it shouldn't yeah that is the correct answer apparently all right well i think that's going to do it for us today guys well there's there's one more in the chat about uh will we have a package to upgrade to 11 and i think this falls into like the feature upgrade area where it can be done but we can't report the results properly there's a possibility we try to suppress reboots again and this probably has a reboot we can't suppress so again depending on how fast your machine is will it finish before it times out we don't know don't want to give you bad data so we generally say we don't officially support it but i wouldn't be surprised if we can do it i haven't tried it yet have you tried it yet i haven't i'm sure something will show up in the forums with all the future upgrades to show that people have made it work it's just we can't we don't get the the positive hey this was successful back so we can't really stand behind 100 so we don't really throw it up hey one quick thing too um we're on youtube today and if you've enjoyed what you've seen please subscribe to our channel and hit that little bell button so you get notifications when we go live because yeah these guys love the positive feedback don't you need something ring the bell ring the bell and subscribe we'd love that thanks right on let's go ahead and wrap it up guys i feel dirty that's the first time you felt 3d really i mean you do webcast i've never pedaled for subscribes before but it is something well we're at 96 100 and we're trying to get to 10k we're just trying to get to 10k because it's cool that sounds cool it's cool i love it okay so there you go that's what jordan and i think of windows 11. and should nobody should need any more than what we think right probably not yeah so my main takeaways the aesthetics have changed in ways that are all superficial under the hood it does seem to run better it does and our product in the beta now can c11 it will be uh the official release on october 5th yeah so give it a try if you're uh if you've got a hardware it'll handle it yep i'm lex i'm jordan pdq.com thanks for joining our webcast today congratulations chris m and kevin m likely no relations but we don't know send us your info at webcast pdq.com we'll send some swag your way thanks again for joining us don't forget to subscribe and we will see you back here next week you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Laughter] [Music] [Music]

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Published: Thu Sep 30 2021