Windows 11 25H2 In-Place Upgrade Driver Migration Issues
Context:
- Dell shop
- 30-40k Windows 11 23H2 endpoints
- Running CM IPU task sequence to install feature update to 25H2
- Device in non-interactive once Install is clicked in Software Center
- Drive issues have impacted several thousand devices, depending on which driver is the culprit
We have seen two different instances, and suspect a third, of older drivers failing to migrate during our IPU task sequence. We are not seeing errors in our logs, per se, but it is being acknowledged that the driver migration is not occurring.
First example is an older Intel VMD storage controller driver. Not updated by Dell for many years. Driver would fail to migrate, and then our setup.exe step would fail to find the storage because the drive wasn't loaded. We tried a newer driver, tried forcing the driver to load, etc., but the most reliable solution was to switch to AHCI mode during the setup.exe step then switch back to RAID mode after. Which is, just... insane.
Second example is a Dell rugged model. The task sequence is choking on a driver for a Bluetooth device. We haven't been able to find scalable workaround for this one yet, and our investigation is on-going. However, we see the same kind of driver migration failures in the logs.
This morning we received an email about printer drivers failing to carry over; however, in this case the IPU is completing. This may be a false positive.
Regardless, we haven't seen squat in our usual media and social channels about anyone else experiencing this problem, so, I'm really hoping we're just the first to talk about it. We have opened a Microsoft ticket that's currently in the "give me a bunch of logs" phase.
Anyone else seeing this problem?