Home windows 11, model 23H2, also referred to as the Home windows 11 2023 Replace, is now accessible by Home windows Server Replace Providers (WSUS) and Home windows Replace for Enterprise. Obtain it from the Quantity Licensing Service Heart ^[1] (VLSC), Software program Obtain Heart (by way of Replace Assistant), or Visible Studio Subscriptions.

What’s new on this launch?

While you replace gadgets operating Home windows 11, model 22H2 to model 23H2, you’ll get the capabilities we’ve delivered as a part of steady innovation, together with these introduced in September, enabled by default. These embrace:

• Copilot in Home windows ^[2] (in preview), an AI-powered clever assistant that will help you get solutions and inspirations from throughout the online, improve creativity and collaboration, and give attention to the duty at hand.
• The flexibility to go passwordless on day one utilizing Home windows Hey for Enterprise or FIDO2 safety keys. Allow staff to check in to web sites or apps utilizing face, PIN, or fingerprint.
• The flexibility to take away the choice for password at machine unlock and for in-session authentication for Microsoft Entra Be a part of (previously Azure AD Be a part of) gadgets.
• Enhanced Home windows Firewall capabilities, together with:
  • Software Management for Enterprise (beforehand often known as Home windows Defender Software Management) app ID tagging with Home windows Firewall guidelines by Intune. Goal Home windows Firewall guidelines to particular functions with out an absolute file path.
  • The flexibility to configure community listing supervisor settings to find out when a Microsoft Entra Be a part of machine is in your on-premises area subnets, so firewall guidelines can correctly apply. Use the community listing supervisor settings for Home windows Firewall for location consciousness.
  • The flexibility to configure extra granular Home windows Firewall logging for area, non-public, and public firewall profiles, in addition to the power to specify Home windows Firewall inbound and outbound guidelines for Web Management Message Protocol (ICMP) sorts and codes.
• Larger management over the taskbar search expertise throughout your group and the power to customise Home windows 11 taskbar buttons utilizing new insurance policies.
• Snipping Device enhancements, similar to:
  • Audio and mic assist so staff can simply report a tutorial or demonstration for colleagues and clients.
  • Textual content extraction and redaction so you possibly can simply copy textual content from a web-based article, convention name, or different supply. Incorporate it into paperwork or displays whereas additionally defending privateness and eradicating confidential or delicate info.

There are additionally just a few extra enhancements on this scoped launch, similar to:

• The flexibility to ungroup icons and present labels on the taskbar for simple entry to open functions and information.
• A extra seamless File Explorer with native assist for RAR and different file compression codecs.
• Really useful web sites within the Begin menu based mostly on every individual’s searching historical past. (This characteristic could be managed utilizing a coverage.)
• A brand new quantity mixer to manage the quantity and audio output extra simply for every utility.
• The flexibility to arrange a multi-app kiosk on Home windows 11 gadgets with a custom-made Begin menu displaying solely allowed apps for every account kind.
• Federated sign-in for Schooling editions of Home windows 11.
• Dev Drive, a brand new type of storage quantity designed to enhance efficiency for key developer workloads. Acquire extra management over storage quantity settings and safety, together with belief designation, antivirus configuration, and administrative management over filters.

For extra particulars and insights into what else is new—together with an inventory of options now not beneath momentary enterprise management—try What’s new in Home windows 11, model 23H2 in our docs on Microsoft Be taught.

What’s the easiest way to deploy this replace?

Glad you requested! As talked about by John Cable in his put up, The best way to get the Home windows 11 2023 Replace, we suggest that industrial organizations start focused deployments to validate that their apps, gadgets, and infrastructure work as anticipated with the brand new launch.

In case your gadgets are already operating Home windows 11, model 22H2 with the newest safety replace put in

In the event you’re updating gadgets which are already operating Home windows 11, model 22H2, you should use an enablement package deal for a quick, straightforward set up course of.

How does an enablement package deal work? Properly, Home windows 11, model 22H2 and model 23H2 share a standard core working system and set of system information. Which means the brand new options in Home windows 11, model 23H2 have been included within the newest month-to-month replace for model 22H2. They have been simply in an inactive and dormant state. The enablement package deal works like a small, quick-to-install change that prompts the model 23H2 options, enabling the replace from Home windows 11, model 22H2 to model 23H2 with a single restart, decreasing downtime.

You may as well use Home windows Replace for Enterprise, Microsoft Intune, or your most popular endpoint administration resolution.

In case your gadgets are operating Home windows 10

You may plan for, and deploy, Home windows 11, model 23H2 utilizing the identical acquainted processes, insurance policies, and administration options you used to initially deploy Home windows 10.

Need assistance? Obtain the Home windows 11 Deployment Lab Equipment and get a whole lab surroundings. It consists of an analysis model of Home windows 11 Enterprise and a set of instruments that will help you check and conduct a proof of idea for Home windows 11 deployment. And don’t neglect finish person readiness! Our Home windows 11 Onboarding Equipment offers ready-to-customize supplies you should use to assist put together your customers and be certain that they get probably the most out of Home windows 11.

What about up to date instruments?

Primarily based in your suggestions, the deployment, safety, and administration instruments you depend on have been up to date or refreshed and are additionally accessible in the present day!

What’s the lifecycle for Home windows 11, model 23H2?

New variations of Home windows 11 are launched as soon as per yr—within the second half of the calendar yr—by way of the Common Availability Channel. They’re serviced with month-to-month updates that embrace safety and non-security gadgets. As we speak, October 31, 2023, marks the beginning of 36 months of servicing assist for Enterprise and Schooling editions of Home windows 11, model 23H2. Dwelling and Professional editions of Home windows 11, model 23H2 obtain 24 months of assist. For extra info, see the Home windows lifecycle FAQ.

The place can I get assist with deploying Home windows 11 characteristic updates?

Wish to free your IT crew from managing updates to allow them to give attention to different tasks? Home windows Autopatch is included with Home windows Enterprise E3 (or greater)! It may well allow you to simply ship each characteristic and high quality updates for Home windows, in addition to updates for Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Groups, and Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise.

Need assistance, suggestions, or finest practices? Be a part of Home windows Workplace Hours each third Thursday on the Home windows Tech Neighborhood! We assemble specialists from the Home windows, Intune, and Home windows 365 product groups, in addition to adoption specialists and Quick Observe to reply your questions in chat. Submit questions through the stay one-hour occasion or put up them upfront if that point doesn’t give you the results you want. Our subsequent occasion is Thursday, November sixteenth from 8:00-9:00 a.m. Pacific Time. And we’ll be holding a second session in November as a part of the Microsoft Technical Takeoff for Home windows and Intune! Bookmark https://aka.ms/Home windows/OfficeHours for upcoming dates!

Lastly, don’t neglect to comply with (or subscribe to updates for) this weblog—and comply with us on LinkedIn and/or @MSWindowsITPro on X—to maintain up with the newest Home windows bulletins and new characteristic releases!

Proceed the dialog. Discover finest practices. Bookmark the Home windows Tech Neighborhood, then comply with us @MSWindowsITPro on X/Twitter. In search of assist? Go to Home windows on Microsoft Q&A.

^[1] It could take just a few days for downloads to be totally accessible within the VLSC throughout all merchandise, markets, and languages.

[2] The preliminary markets for Copilot in Home windows (in preview) embrace North America and elements of Asia and South America. It’s our intention so as to add extra markets over time. Copilot in Home windows with Bing Chat Enterprise requires Home windows 11 and the person to be licensed for Microsoft 365 Enterprise Commonplace, Enterprise Premium, Enterprise E3 or and E5, A3 or A5 for school, or a standalone license + Entra ID.