Blue Iris Windows 11 or Windows Server?

My installed version of BI 5 was at most 2 updates old so I cannot believe that was an issue. In any event, I sent that same report to BI Support and received a reply from "Jennifer" who stated the following:

Sometimes this happens if you previously had a very old version 5 on the system.
Run REGEDIT and find the key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Perspective Software\Blue Iris

If you see a subkey 'a' beneath this, it must be deleted. You may need to right-click and change permissions on the key to allow "everyone" full control of the key before it may be deleted.

I did as she advised and my BI5 install booted up just fine with all my camera settings seemingly imported accurately. :-D I will be monitoring this for a few days before moving the new PC into my wire closet. So far so good!
 
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Just a simplemans wild guess :)
Thankd for sharing the solution....I have 1 machine here with early ver 5 and Win 10...if I were to try that trick..( importing a .reg file) ..from W11 back to 10with diff versions...i could see the same result...
 
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Last night I moved my BI on dedicated pc with Win10 to a VM on Unraid server using Windows 11 tiny iso.
After some initial issues with getting the GPU passthrough seems to be going ok.

But I cannot seem to get yolo 6.2 cuda working with the GPU. Worked fine on the win10 machine.
So on the 5.2 net at the moment. My gtx970 worked well with the 6.2.
But still 40-50ms inference speeds on large model with high res jpegs is not too bad for the old gtx970.
 
10 cameras running windows 10 enterprise SPECTRE light. Very stripped down version of windows - VM has 2GB of ram assigned but only uses 1.2GB RAM!!!
Rock solid

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It sounds like you’ve been making some solid progress with your setup! I had a similar issue when I moved my setup to a VM and had trouble with CUDA not working right. I ended up doing a factory reset Windows to get a clean slate, which fixed a bunch of glitches and got things working smoothly again. Sometimes, starting fresh can help clear up those unexpected problems. If you’re still having issues with CUDA and GPU passthrough, it might be worth checking if there are any updates or specific settings for the VM. Your GTX970 still seems to be holding up well with those speeds!
 
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I installed BI on windows server 2022 - and it seems to be fantatic. Everything was great until...I got to docker. Apparently docker desktop is not suoported on windows server. I run CodeProjects AI in docker as its much easier to manage and upgrade as required. I can get it installed but it won't start on boot therefore i have to manually log in everytime a reboot/crash or anything happens... Or i won't get any alerts! which is not good!. Currently trying to find any/all work arounds for this. If i find anything i'll write up on here, if not then i may have to switch to bloatware version of windows (win 11 pro) which is a shame!!
 
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Jagradang said:
I installed BI on windows server 2022 - and it seems to be fantatic. Everything was great until...I got to docker. Apparently docker desktop is not suoported on windows server. I run CodeProjects AI in docker as its much easier to manage and upgrade as required. I can get it installed but it won't start on boot therefore i have to manually log in everytime a reboot/crash or anything happens... Or i won't get any alerts! which is not good!. Currently trying to find any/all work arounds for this. If i find anything i'll write up on here, if not then i may have to switch to bloatware version of windows (win 11 pro) which is a shame!!
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I use Proxmox to run Windows VM to run BI and Debian VM to host Docker. Works great.
 
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I run CodeProjects AI in docker as its much easier to manage and upgrade as required.
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Interesting news. For testing purpose I was running CodeProjects AI separatly under Proxmox in a Linux LXC with Docker in it.
My plan for the target platform was running both Blue Iris and CodeProjects AI on the same windows machine to make use of the GPU by both programs.

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I use Proxmox to run Windows VM to run BI and Debian VM to host Docker. Works great.
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Do you use a separate GPU for Blue Iris and CodeProjects AI? Or only one gets it?
If Blue Iris would exist for Linux there would be much better options for virtualization with shared hardware.

Jagradang said:
I installed BI on windows server 2022 - and it seems to be fantatic.
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It also works great under Server 2025. I could not notice a difference when testing on Windows 11 24H2 and Server 2025.
From technical side, the server Windows I see as the better platform for such kind programs. Less "bloatware". From license point of view a different topic.
 
TobiasF said:
Do you use a separate GPU for Blue Iris and CodeProjects AI? Or only one gets it?
If Blue Iris would exist for Linux there would be much better options for virtualization with shared hardware.
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My Proxmox host does not have a Nvidia GPU. It uses Intel CPU for both BI and CodeProject.AI
 
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I don't know/understand the technical details to how this works, but my understanding is that motherboards have some sort of identifying number that is recorded and reported to MS when you activate a Windows license.
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I dug into this a bit a few weeks ago when working on boxes that I'd bought used with Win10, and upgrading some of them to Win11. On some boxes, this PowerShell admin command will work, wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey, and on others this one, (Get-WmiObject -query 'select * from SoftwareLicensingService').OA3xOriginalProductKey, but on older ones neither will work. But ShowKeyPlus always works.

Here's a box originally built with Win7, and then upgraded to Win10 Pro before it was sold on ebay. I'm still running W10P on it now:
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Here's a box originally built with Win10 Pro before it was sold on ebay. I'm still running W10P on it now:

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Here's a box originally built with Win10 Pro before it was sold on ebay. I'm upgraded it to Win11 Pro myself, and it activated just fine:

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Here's a box originally built with Win10 Pro before it was upgraded to Win11 Pro and sold on ebay:

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TheWaterbug said:
I dug into this a bit a few weeks ago when working on boxes that I'd bought used with Win10, and upgrading some of them to Win11. On some boxes, this PowerShell admin command will work, wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey, and on others this one, (Get-WmiObject -query 'select * from SoftwareLicensingService').OA3xOriginalProductKey, but on older ones neither will work. But ShowKeyPlus always works.

Here's a box originally built with Win7, and then upgraded to Win10 Pro before it was sold on ebay. I'm still running W10P on it now:
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Here's a box originally built with Win10 Pro before it was sold on ebay. I'm still running W10P on it now:

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Here's a box originally built with Win10 Pro before it was sold on ebay. I'm upgraded it to Win11 Pro myself, and it activated just fine:

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Here's a box originally built with Win10 Pro before it was upgraded to Win11 Pro and sold on ebay:

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The PC's you upgraded to Win 11 had met the hardware requirements?
 
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The PC's you upgraded to Win 11 had met the hardware requirements?
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Nope! I used Rufus to make a USB installer stick that skips the TPM and CPU model checks. I updated the TPM to 2.0 on 4 of the boxes anyway, because I found the tool to do so, but I'm not sure it matters.

The Windows installer does throw up a warning just before the last Install button, warning that I'm installing on an unsupported box, but I just clicked through it.

All the updated boxes seem to run just fine.
 
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From technical side, the server Windows I see as the better platform for such kind programs. Less "bloatware".
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Yeah, this is my motivation for following this thread, too. Server OS are designed to be up and running 24/7/365. They aren't configured to spontaneously reboot, add useless features, go to sleep, try to save you money by enforcing energy saving features without you asking, download Clippy, etc.

I remotely manage a BI box for my parents, and every time I run into a problem that I can't fix over RDP, it's an hour-long round-trip to fix it, minimum.
 
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Nope! I used Rufus to make a USB installer stick that skips the TPM and CPU model checks. I updated the TPM to 2.0 on 4 of the boxes anyway, because I found the tool to do so, but I'm not sure it matters.

The Windows installer does throw up a warning just before the last Install button, warning that I'm installing on an unsupported box, but I just clicked through it.

All the updated boxes seem to run just fine.
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I was looking into doing this for two of my PC's. I read that going the rufus route you cant update windows apparently. I haven't verified yet if that's the case..
 
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I was looking into doing this for two of my PC's. I read that going the rufus route you cant update windows apparently. I haven't verified yet if that's the case..
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The boxes that I've upgraded to Win11 did all their updates after installation, with no problems.
 
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I documented how I updated to Win11 in this thread and it is updating when one is released (although they do say they could block it at any time):

wittaj

Post in thread 'Blue Iris OS Options'

OK so I had a cheap laptop sitting around that someone gave me - it is like really cheap with everything soldered in LOL, so you can't swap out drives or add RAM. Only has like 64GB of storage.

So I wanted to see if the bypass methods work.

It took a lot of trial and error - I suspect that maybe Microsoft blocks things as they are discovered and people post about them LOL.

Anyway here is how I got mine to take Win11

In Windows, hit Start and type regedit, then hit enter to launch the Registry Editor. Navigate to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\MoSetup

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In the...
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wittaj said:
I documented how I updated to Win11 in this thread and it is updating when one is released (although they do say they could block it at any time):

wittaj

Post in thread 'Blue Iris OS Options'

OK so I had a cheap laptop sitting around that someone gave me - it is like really cheap with everything soldered in LOL, so you can't swap out drives or add RAM. Only has like 64GB of storage.

So I wanted to see if the bypass methods work.

It took a lot of trial and error - I suspect that maybe Microsoft blocks things as they are discovered and people post about them LOL.

Anyway here is how I got mine to take Win11

In Windows, hit Start and type regedit, then hit enter to launch the Registry Editor. Navigate to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\MoSetup

1734238889669.png

In the...
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I'll check this out thanks
 
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