More details to come, but no cutoff planned."Īfter upgrading, you can switch to the Stable Channel.īest, Andre Windows Insider MVP MVP-Windows and Devices for IT twitter/adacosta groovypost. "We expect to keep flighting builds to Insiders all the way up to RTM. When asked if there would be a cut off date for Insiders before Windows 10 reached RTM, Microsoft's Gabriel Aul stated that preview builds would continue being delivered up until the final release.
Yes, you will be able to upgrade from the Windows Insider Preview to the RTM build for free.Ĭompany officials have noted though if you join the Windows Insider Program you will qualify for the free upgrade to the final release. Will I be able to upgrade from the Windows 10 Insider Preview to the final release? To: Reinstall or Restore your original Windows installation after evaluating the Windows 10 Previews Under Stop getting preview builds move the slider for Opt this device out of flighting when the next major release of Windows 10 is installed. Over the week or so we've been playing with Windows 11, we've also had the entire VM lock up and require a hard reset several times.How to: Rollback to a previous version of Windows from Windows 10 (WireGuard has its own virtual NIC, so we're technically not using our "real" network card to access the DNS server on the far side of the tunnel.)
Unfortunately, that didn't resolve the original DNS issue-which turns out to be some conflict between Windows 11 and the VirtIO network driver we're using.Ĭhanging the VM's network adapter to emulated Intel e1000 resolved the DNS issue-as does, hilariously, leaving the NIC as VirtIO and just using a DNS server on the far side of a WireGuard tunnel. Thankfully, Control Panel hasn't yet been done away with in Windows 11, and its tried-and-true network adapter configuration dialog works just as expected. Next question-is Control Panel still there?
The second bug came while trying to troubleshoot the first-attempting to set IP address configuration directly using Windows 11's Settings dialog fails miserably, with a cryptic message to "check one or more settings and try again." There's nothing actually wrong with the settings-the dialog is just broken. Nevertheless, attempting to ping the same hostname directly fails, as do most attempts to browse with Edge or Chrome. But attempts to ping fail! The confusion only gets worse when we use nslookup to query our DNS server directly-it answers our queries just fine. We can ping 8.8.8.8-Google's anycast DNS provider-without issue, so we know that general connectivity is fine both inside the LAN and outside of it. You can see the DNS resolver issues in the first screenshot above.
It took almost no time to find our first and second nasty Windows 11 bugs-the DNS resolver was strangely and inconsistently broken, and the network configuration dialog under Settings was broken as well. Select Dev Channel from the Insider settings to download and install the current Windows 11 build meant for Windows Insider Preview and hit the Confirm button. Follow the instructions to choose the experience and channel you want to get the early Windows 11 preview build on your computer. Youll need the Microsoft account to continue. Navigate to Windows Insiders Program and click Get Started.
During the reboot, we get the usual "don't turn off your computer" message-but it's in a new font and possibly on a slightly different shade of blue background. Press Windows + S to open Settings and choose Update & Security. Ironically, the first look anyone gets at Windows 11 itself right now is the dreaded BSOU (Blue Screen Of Updates)-after flighting our Windows 10 VM into the Dev channel and one very quick download, it rebooted.
Although one of our test VMs is a "daily driver" we rely on, it's sitting on top of a ZFS dataset-and we took a manual snapshot prior to the upgrade, for easy rollback.
We had no real problems updating either a well-used Windows 10 VM or a brand-new one-but we strongly advise against upgrading to Windows 11 on a machine or VM that matters to you, unless you have a guaranteed method of recovery you both trust and are prepared to use. (If you're not already on Windows 10 20H2 or newer, you'll need to get through that upgrade first.) To install Windows 11 Build 22000.51, you must begin with a fully patched and up-to-date Windows 10 installation, then flight it into the Dev channel, then upgrade it to Windows 11 via Windows Update. The first disappointment we encountered with Windows 11 is a puzzling one-it can't (yet) be cleanly installed as a new operating system.