Report Request: PC's that CAN'T be upgraded to Windows 11

[hkey_current_us]

Hi,

The Windows 11 requirements are out (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifications). I'd like to start planning for hardware replacements. (budgeting, forecasting etc.)

I'm sure this will be popular. Anyone able to build such a report? I certainly don't have the skills.

Cheers.

[Esben_D]

Here is the blog + report.

The report lists the requirements and also has notes to give some more explanation on how I worked around the limitations of some data not being available.

[RCorbeil]

Thanks, Esben.D. I look forward to seeing the results of your efforts.

[Esben_D]

I'm working on a report for next week that will cover this.

What RC62N mentioned is correct, that data listed isn't directly scanned. I did find a way to determine whether BIOS or EUFI is used (based on boot partition settings). Secure boot can be checked with a registry key (but the requirements is capable, not enabled so...)

Still working on importing the list of around 700 supported CPUs, but it will be published next week.

[charlieb]

it would be very helpful if lansweeper had a simple api to update custom fields then
we would be able to do our own custom scans (not via lansweeper)
then either put results in the custom fields or
put a web link in the custom field to a table of results

lansweeper does a great job but can never get all the info that everyone wants to meed specific business requirements so why not provide some very very basic extensibility

[RCorbeil]

Several of the requirements can be readily pulled from LANSweeper -- CPU, RAM, TPM -- but a few of them, as best I'm aware, can't.

Requirements

• Graphics card: DirectX 12
  
• Graphics card: WDDM 2.0
  
• System firmware: UEFI
  
• System firmware: secure boot capable
  
• Monitor: 9" or greater

As best I'm aware, LANSweeper has no record of DirectX or WDDM versions. I haven't gone deep-diving, but a skim of the tables and a few minutes with Google turned up nothing.

I've seen some attempts to infer UEFI based on other characteristics, but nothing definitive. I don't believe I've seen any means of determining whether secure boot is supported.

As far as the monitor size, I'm not aware of that being a recorded attribute. You can run an inventory of monitors and manually look up their sizes to build your own lookup list -- many are probably obvious from the model numbers -- but that's likely to take a fair amount of time.

If anyone knows better, please chime in. I'm always interesting in learning of extra nuggets of data buried away in the database and I wouldn't mind a report on what hardware won't meet needs.