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CapaWinUpgrade - Control Groups

Control groups

Section titled “Control groups”

Control groups are used to specify the target version for Windows in-place upgrades.

Link the endpoint or endpoints that you intend to upgrade, to the control group corresponding to the desired target version.

If an endpoint isn’t linked to a control group, the CapaWinUpgrade packages fail with an error saying that the computer has not been linked to a control group.

CapaInstaller group tree under CapaServices → CapaWinUpgrade, with one control group per target version such as W10.1909, W11.22H2, and W11.23H2

How control groups are created

Section titled “How control groups are created”

The CapaSystems Services Cloud Updater package creates the control groups. Each time the package runs, it creates a control group for every Windows version listed in its installation script, if the group doesn’t already exist.

  • The control groups are static computer groups.
  • Each group is named CapaWinUpgrade -> <Windows version>, for example CapaWinUpgrade -> W11.23H2.
  • The groups are placed in the CapaServices → CapaWinUpgrade group folder.

In the installation script, each Windows version is written as <version> <language>, for example W11.23H2 EN-US. Separate multiple versions with a semicolon: W11.23H2 EN-US;W11.23H2 DA-DK.

To add a new Windows version, see How-to Add a New image to the CapaSystems Cloud Updater Package.

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