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Preparing Your Virtual Environment for Windows 11: Tackling EFI, Secure Boot, and TPM Part – 4 Automating the last mile for scale
Ok so I’ve covered all the prep work for getting the virtual environment to take Windows 11, but these tasks can be time consuming if there are hundreds or thousands of VMs that need to be upgraded. This post will cover some of the ways to add some automation. The goal for this post is…
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Preparing Your Virtual Environment for Windows 11: Tackling EFI, Secure Boot, and TPM Part – 3 Upgrading Hardware and adding TPM
The last piece of the puzzle is often upgrading the VM. Before you can add a vTPM, your environment needs to meet a few prerequisites: For the purpose of this guide, we’ll assume that you already have vCenter Server 6.7+ deployed and that virtual machine encryption and KMS are configured in your environment. These initial…
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Preparing Your Virtual Environment for Windows 11: Tackling EFI, Secure Boot, and TPM Part – 2 Converting to GPT/EFI
So, you made it past part 1, thank you. I thought I lost you there. As I mentioned before, in the virtual environment, many IT admins didn’t update the disk configuration in the template when we transitioned from Windows 7 to Windows 10. GPT/EFI is the starting point to get us where we need to…
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Preparing Your Virtual Environment for Windows 11: Tackling EFI, Secure Boot, and TPM – Part – 1
The clock is ticking! October 14, 2025, marks the official End of Life (EOL) for Windows 10 Enterprise. After this date, Windows 10 will no longer receive patches or security updates from Microsoft, essentially becoming unsupported. While it might continue to function, running an unsupported OS poses significant security risks. If you work in the…