Windows Upgrade To Windows 10 Pro
Hercules Montero
I have a business grade HP machine still running Windows 7 that came with the machine.
I want to update it now to Windows 10.
The main link on the MS site for downloading the Update (22H2 - -us/software-download/windows10) is giving me an error on both my desktop and laptop machines when I go to launch the exe it downloads:
If I download the "Create installation media" file, will that give me the same option to "update over Windows 7" the exact same way the Update link would (if it was working properly, that is)?
I'm currently testing out Windows 11 upgrades for an Enterprise environment and have run into a ton of issues. I discovered that our 3rd party anti-virus was causing conflicts, however even on clients with that removed I am seeing intermittent failures when attempting the upgrade from Windows 10 22H2 to Windows 11 23H2.
Attached are some of the resulting files from running setupdiag on one of the computers that has failed the update. If anyone could provide insight into what could be causing the issue, I'd be very appreciative. I've seen tons of different errors in tons of different places and have no idea which ones are actually causing issues and which ones I can ignore. I've seen similar problems on numerous different models of computers but they are all Dell in case that is relevant.
have you tried using the windows 11 upgrade assistant / Windows 11 Installation Assistant?
I have seen this issue in the past and using the Windows 11 Installation Assistant fixed the issue a few times in my case.
Thank you for your suggestion. I have tried booting into a clean environment and then running the upgrade and that didn't seem to make a difference either. When I tried that though, I tried installing Windows 11 through the Upgrade Assistant and not an .ISO file. I have tried an .ISO install outside of a clean boot and that did not seem to make a difference either.
I don't know where to go from here really. I'll keep going through logs and seeing what I can find but I'm running out of ideas. The main error code I'm seeing is 0x8007042B-0x4000D and the problem is almost certainly a migration error, however I don't believe it is driver or local profile related as I've updated all drivers and there is almost no user data on this computer.
I have been using the .ISO file. The install.wim file is custom as I extracted a version that only contains the version of Windows I'm looking to install. I couldn't get the ISO to work and switched to manually attempting the update via Windows Update or the Upgrade Assistant and got the same 0x8007042B-0x4000D error no matter what method I used.
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Looks good so far. The biggest issue I have found with windows updates is that Microsoft utilizes Akamai for content delivery. This often causes failures in a system attempting to get updates. However the client usually does get the updates, etc. Just keep an eye on the traffic that is getting blocked and see if you need to tune the policy you already have.
Do not decrypt this traffic as it will break. Also remember that users will be able to put www.microsoft.com into a browser and get to the site (this is unavoidable). Also here is a list I have for MS update URLS:
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