Windows 11 GPO compatibility

[philellis]

Hi,

 

We, like most others, are looking into early(ish) testing of windows 11 within a windows 10 environment.

 

I'm aware MS advise a registry 'hack' to enable windows 10 machines to use their local central GPO store if Windows 11 ADML /ADMX files are copied to the site central store as they're not backwards compatible.

 

Is anyone using their existing Windows 10 ADML /ADMX files and running Windows 11 OS along side this?

 

If so, what were your experiences with this?

 

Thanks

[DaveTheTech]

When I was testing with 7>10 I added filters to only target the new OS.

The following will pick up only Windows 11

select * from Win32_OperatingSystem where Version like "10.22000" and ProductType="1"

Edited April 25, 2022 by DaveTheTech

[philellis]

From my understanding, MS will only allow either Windows 10 or Windows 11 ADMX files. So in essence, I'm trying to hopefully get away with implementing a few windows 11 devices within a windows 10 estate and hope the policies apply to the windows 11 machines on the whole.

 

I have imaged one machine however this didn't seem to have any of the existing policies applied after checking gpupdate, correct OU and all the other standard stuff.

 

I'm curious to find out if others are heading down the same route as myself and if so, what their experiences are.

 

Thanks

[LeMarchand]

No W11 ADMXs here yet. I just clean installed a W11 machine and it picked up all the relevant GPOs. Haven't noticed any problems at my other sites, either.

 

What didn't apply for you?

[DaveTheTech]

Bit of reading and there are a subset of Windows 10 GPOs that wont apply and some that are only for 11.

Group policies for Windows 11 and 10 21H2 compared – 4sysops

 

For now, it appears that there wouldnt be too much missing.