IT administrators trying to figure out how to move their organizations
to Windows 10 have a new tool that might change the game. This week,
Microsoft released the Windows Upgrade Analytics Service, designed to make it easier to decide whether you can carry out a massive upgrade.
WUAS gives administrators a sense of what drivers and applications
are running in their environment, as well as how many devices are
running Windows 10. Using Microsoft telemetry data, it decides whether
those devices and the software running on them will be compatible with
Windows 10 and suggest fixes for compatibility problems.
The upgrade service helps address a key concern that IT professionals
have about a major OS upgrade: Will the new OS break the applications
and devices that end users rely on? By introducing this tool, Microsoft
may accelerate adoption of Windows 10.
The service is essentially a more advanced version of the Application
Compatibility Toolkit that Microsoft made available for IT shops
deploying Windows 7, Gartner Research Vice President Steve Kleynhans
said in an interview.
“It’s always good to know what kind of blockers you’re going to run into, what kind of problems you might hit, so IT shops are constantly looking for these kinds of tools and making use of them,” Kleynhans said.
WUAS can also be used to help execute rollouts of Windows 10, whether
in a small pilot project or a full production-level launch. The service
will export a list of devices to a suite of software deployment tools,
which administrators can use to deploy an upgrade.
In the future, Kleynhans hopes the service can become a part of the
process for organizations evaluating the impact of Windows 10 patches.
“I think it’ll be interesting to see how this plays out with the
ongoing updates going forward. Because that’s really the bigger
challenge,” Kleynhans said. “We’ve got the one project now, getting onto
Windows 10, but then there’s the project later on that happens every
six, nine, 12 months, whatever it turns out to be, as new updates roll
out.”
source: http://www.msfn.org/2016/09/29/new-microsoft-tool-shows-win-10-might-affect-devices/
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