Has anyone experienced high failure rates with Windows 10 in-place upgrade Task Sequence deployments?
I've been rolling Windows 10 out to our organization and am trying to leverage the in-place upgrade TS to save money and time. I've had the in-place configured and working for a couple of months and have thoroughly tested it on ~15 machines with no problems. During testing, the in-place was successfully applied on new imaged equipment, old equipment, laptops, desktops, power users, equipment on separate VLANS, equipment in different remote geographical locations, equipment with 3rd party applications installed on them, logged in as local admin, logged in as a generic domain account..etc. Now that we are starting to move forward with our rollout, I'm noticing some inconsistent issues. About 75% of our in-place upgrades have been failing and the logs almost always point to a generic application incompatibility error. Since the failures, I've started testing the following scenarios to attempt to narrow down the issue. Test Scenarios: - Took a failed in-place upgrade from our accounting department (different VLAN than IT), plugged it in to our IT lab VLAN, made no other changes, reran the in-place, and it worked fine. Then took a newly imaged laptop back to the accounting department, plugged into an Ethernet port on their VLAN, ran the in-place and when I expected it to fail, it worked and completed successfully. - Verified potential application incompatibilities, removed the software and 3rd party applications that are potentially not supported and then re-run and the in-place works. However, Will take another device, install all of the conflicting applications, run an in-place and it works fine when I would assume it should fail. - Symantec Endpoint Protection was an issue when I first started testing. I have our version of SEP on the supported version, so that's no longer an issue. Regardless, we have taken safety precautions and removed SEP all together prior to performing in-place upgrades and have still seen failures. I know there are countless things that could be causing this and every environment differs. Just looking for any insight. Thoughts? Regards Matthew R. Gerding System Engineer Information Technology Centurion Medical Products 517.540.1618 www.centurionmp.com<http://www.centurionmp.com/> ************************* PATIENT CARE WITHOUT COMPROMISE(tm)
