Azure VM – Windows 11 21H2 upgrade to 24H2

Windows 11 does not support this CPU – Standard E2s v3 (2 vcpus, 16 GiB memory)

Steps:

  1. RDP into that VM
  2. Do a windows Update and Restart
  3. Then download the Windows 11 24H2 ISO file from Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/software-download/windows11
  4. Mount the ISO file
  5. Then run CMD as an administrator
  6. Go to drive that was assigned to the mounted windows 11 24H2 ISO file
  7. type: setup.exe /product server
  8. and press enter to begin the upgrade.