An Expert Approach to Your Windows 11 Migration Readiness

In the earlier blog, “Windows 11 Pre-Migration Readiness”, we explored vital ControlUp reports such as the Windows 11 readiness report, application inventory report, application crash report, and endpoint application security assessment report to help you understand the scope of work to migrate to Windows 11.

In this blog, we will discuss how ControlUp helps create an exceptional experience for employees migrating to Windows 11. Many tools are available to help migrate to Windows 11, but many businesses forget about the human effect of a migration. ControlUp enables a human-centric migration with deep insights and understanding into your employees’ experience.

Sentiment Reporting

With ControlUp user sentiment reporting, you can understand how employees feel about the migration, what they think about the device performance under the new OS, and how applications are performing compared to running on Windows 10. Adding the human element to the migration helps get employee buy-in for a successful migration with minimal impact on productivity.

Adding custom questions is easy, for instance, in the screen below, I created a template to ask the four following questions using categories such as Multiple Choice, Yes/No, Free text, and Net Promoter Score (NPS).

How is the performance of Windows 11 compared to Windows 10?
- Multiple choice
Are you able to access all your business applications?
- Yes/No
Do you have any business applications missing?
- Free text
Are you satisfied with the Windows 11 upgrade
- Net Promoter Score

Once the template has been created, you can send the surveys to groups of devices or people. For instance, you can send surveys only to devices that were upgraded to Windows 11. Below are sample survey results that went out to Windows 11 devices.

When I was doing migration projects, I always wished I could have polled the end-users to see if the new OS or applications were any faster, providing a better experience, caused less trouble, or helped them be more productive. I always knew we did a decent job, but I still wanted that end-user feedback. Well, here we are again, ControlUp has an end-user survey that can be customized to get the feedback you want from a targeted group of people, or the entire organization.

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Jeff Johnson

Jeff is a product marketing manager for ControlUp. He is responsible for evangelizing the Digital Employee Experience on physical endpoints such as Windows, macOS, and Linux. Jeff has spent his career specializing in enterprise strategies for client computing, application delivery, virtualization, and systems management. Jeff was one of the key architects of the Consumerization of IT Strategy for Microsoft, which has redefined how enterprises allow unmanaged devices to access corporate intellectual property.