Microsoft has addressed a known issue with unsupported computers being offered Windows 11 22H2 upgrades and unable to complete the installation process.

The issue was detected by the Redmond engineering team on Thursday, February 23, and resolved the same day, with the patch being applied to affected devices over the weekend.

This has happened before, with Windows 11 22H2 offered at Windows 11 Insiders In the Release Preview channel with ineligible devices.

On Friday, customers reported Reddit And Twitter that unsupported devices were once again targeted for Windows 11 upgrades.

“Some Windows 10 and Windows 11, version 21H2 hardware ineligible devices were offered an inaccurate upgrade to Windows 11”, Microsoft explain in a new Windows 11 Health Dashboard entry added the same day.

“These ineligible devices did not meet the minimum system requirements to run Windows 11. Devices that experienced this issue were unable to complete the upgrade installation process.”

Affected devices include those running Windows 11 21H2, Windows 10 21H2, and Windows 10 20H2.

​Fix rolling out to affected PCs over the weekend

The issue has now been resolved, and Redmond said the fix will likely roll out to most affected users within the next 48 hours.

In January, Microsoft announced that it had launched a forced deployment from Windows 11 22H2 (aka Windows 11 2022 Update) to systems running Windows 11 21H2, approaching their end of support (EOS) date of October 10, 2023.

This automated rollout phase of the feature update came after Windows 11 2022 Update also became available for large-scale, same-day rollout to users with eligible devices through Windows Update.

More recently, the company revealed that it work to solve a problem preventing certain WSUS servers upgraded to Windows Server 2022 from pushing Windows 11 22H2 February 2023 Updates to endpoints in enterprise environments.