Identify compatibility issues and suggest mitigations.

Automatically recommend which devices to include in pilots.

Create the Windows 10 Deployment Planįor our test, we will use the Windows 10 20H2 version. Note that it will take about 2 days to process those changes and reflect the new list of devices.

Important Info If you already added a collection here, but would like to review it, it can be modified.

Select your Target Collection doe Desktop Analytics.

Administration / Cloud Services / Azure Services / Desktop Analytics.

Once the collection is built on your criteria, it can be specified under : Servers should also be excluded from the collection to define devices to include in Desktop Analytics. Importing Windows 7 devices will likely bring a ton of no longer used applications that will simply create additional work to sort. This is important to simply the amount of information in Desktop Analytics.

Are there any devices with a specific application that are mission-critical and need to be excluded from Windows 10 Feature update?.

Is there any Windows 10 LTSB/LTSC in the environment?.

Assuming you are well into the Windows 7 to Windows 10 migration, it may only add unnecessary noise to your reports in Desktop Analytics.

Here are a few questions to help determine which devices should be included. Select devices to be evaluated by Desktop Analytics See our previous post on how to setup Desktop Analytics and connect it to your SCCM/ConfigMgr/MEMCM environment prior to reading this post. Desktop Analytics Windows 10 Update Requirements In this blog post, we’ll detail real-world scenarios on how to use Desktop Analytics information to help during a Windows 10 Feature update deployment.

ConfigMgr remains the master of the actual deployment. Desktop Analytics isn’t a product to deploy a Windows 10 Feature Update. The goal of Desktop analytics is to give data to understand your environment prior to mass roll out a new Windows 10 Feature Update. Desktop Analytics is still a recent product and a small beast that require a bit of time and trial and error to get going.

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