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I’m running Win 10 using Parallels on a Mac. When I run the upgrade advisor to try to get Win 11, I’m always greeted with the above message (“*Some settings are managed by your organization”). It’s my private computer, I’m not in any organization and I have Admin privileges. How can I get past this to get to an upgrade? Thanks!
Richard
You are getting the message “*Some settings are managed by your organization” because some changes have been made in Group Policy (if you have the Pro Edition of Windows) or in the Registry by you or by third-party software (such as InControl, WUMgr, WinAero, O&O software, etc).
One place you can look is Settings\Windows Update. If you see the message at the top of the screen, you can click on it and it will give you a list of the settings involved. See:
This Microsoft document.
Ten Forums also has information on where to find information in the Settings App.
You may have to temporally change some of the settings to get the upgrade advisor to work.
Note: I run Win8.1, Win10, and both Win11 23H2 and Win11 24H2 in Parallels VM on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs. Parallels provides the drivers that interpret/translate between Windows and MacOS. From my experience – you will probably not be able to run Win11 on an Intel-based Mac (maybe possible on a 9th gen CPU?), but the Parallels website is the place to go for conformation. Parallels is allowing me to run Win8.1 on a iMac4K that’s Kaby Lake 7th gen i7 (where MS blocked Win8.1 on 7th-gen CPUs), but only in Test Mode, by bypassing the restriction and providing drivers. I have not tried to run Win11 on this machine. I assume you have an Intel-based Mac, since you cannot (to my knowledge) run Win10 on an Apple Silicon Mac.
I have had no problem running Win11 on an 2020 M1MacMini, 2024 M2Max MacBook Pro, and an M4Pro MacMini. But in is not the same Windows that I run on Intel Macs. You have to run Win11 on ARM on Apple Silicon and the Apps have to be ARM versions or be translated by Rosetta or some simulat0r such as Crossover of Wine.
For anyone who sees this “Some settings are managed by your organization” message, there’s a really quick way of seeing what policies are in place, both machine-wide and per-user.
1. Right-click on the Start button and select Windows PowerShell (Admin) from the list.
2. When the console opens, copy/paste/enter the following:
Set-Location ([environment]::GetFolderPath(‘Desktop’)) | GPRESULT /H RSOP-Report.html
3. When the console shows the cursor again, just close the PowerShell console and double-click on the newly-created RSOP-Report.html file on your desktop.
4. When the report opens, click on the tiny show all link at the top of the webpage (in the centre, just under the Group Policy Results title) to expand every category.
5. Use Find (CTRL+F) to look for Enabled.
(I use Firefox so I can select the option for Highlight All… and on this device it shows me I have 11 policies that are Enabled… and I can just move from one policy to the next to read them.)
For example:
Hope this helps…
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