Package to deploy Windows 11 feature upgrade

[yuriceroni]

Good morning, I'm writing to you as I need to create a distribution package for the Windows 11 feature upgrade. I tried to apply what I did previously to distribute the Windows 10 update (windowsupdatebox.exe) but it doesn't work. Do you have suggestions? Thank you

[pryan67]

This would be useful.   I have to upgrade ~500 machines and would prefer not to have to touch each machine physically, nor have the users have to manually do it.   I haven't looked into it too much yet though.

[yuriceroni · Accepted solution]

Dear Pryan67,

I was able to deploy the Windows 11 feature upgrade by simply deploying an activation package as follows:

dism /online /add-package /packagepath:C:\LSDeployment\KB5027397\955D24B7A533F830940F5163371DE45FF349F8D9.cab

I've extracted the cab file from the package "KB5027397". This update seems to be in charge of enabling the 23H2 version which is already present but in a "dormant" state on board the 22H2 systems with the latest updates on board. See article https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5027397-feature-update-to-windows-11-version-23h2-by-usi...

[jeffjurs09]

Hi,

Do you mind sharing how you extracted the cab file from the package "KB5027397" ?

Thank you for sharing.

[yuriceroni]

I've found the cab file in the WSUS directory. You can search directly "955D24B7A533F830940F5163371DE45FF349F8D9.cab". For me is in the "<local drive>\WSUS\WSUSContent\D9" folder.