Prestage Windows 10 upgrade and apply later (@home), possible?

[Siroj]

We would like to create the following situation if possible:

 

A new Windows 10 build/version is made available and is prepared by our technicians through SCCM. An upgrade TS is created and deployed to specific devices (laptops).

When at work, an employee receives a notification through Software Center that an Upgrade Operating System (TS) is available.

The employee selects the TS in Software Center. In the background all required components are downloaded/prestaged to disk and when ready the employee is presented with a message that the Upgrade is ready to be performed.

At this stage it should be possible to go home or anywhere else and kickoff the upgrade, not having to be connected to the office network for the upgrade to complete.

 

Is above scenario possible with current technology?

[surfincow]

You can try deploying the task sequence as "available" then a second as "required" with a deadline a year in the future (and not visible in software center). If that works the same way as with packages then content would be downloaded (due to the required deployment) but then be used when the "available" deployment is run. (you might need to use 2 separate collections if it won't let you deploy the same TS to a collection that its already advertised to)

 

I've not used TS's outside normal OSD that often so not terribly familiar with how it works with an existing OS. I'm fairly certain my suggestion won't work, but its one thought and should be fairly quick/simple to test.

 

If this does work keep in mind you may use up all the client cache for this TS and it could cause problems with future deployments if there's not space available for it to download. And also don't forget at some point to remove the required deployment otherwise bad things might happen. Maybe could make the required task sequence the same as the available TS but add another step right at the beginning that would cause it to fail so if for some reason you forget to remove it or it gets run by accident nothing bad happens.