Need some recommendations from fellow Network Engineers who have already dealt with this. Our org recently updated to Windows 11 and it killed our ability to use our USB to Serial adapters because of Windows core isolation/memory integrity settings. Our domain admins have given up trying to disable memory integrity for us so now it's on me to figure out a viable alternative for our console connections, and I really don't feel like rolling the dice on random purchases.

Anyone have a recommendation for a USB-to-Serial adapter that will work when Windows 11 Core Isolation security settings are all turned on? It really needs to be a legit serial connection on the adapter too because most of our network infrastructure doesn't have native USB console ports and also we are doing Serial over Ethernet in a few places and those require native serial on both sides.

Thanks in advance :)

Recently installed Windows 11 on one of my laptops and my programming cable stopped working after a security update (which was odd because it worked fine with Win11 for a while at first).

Device manager said the Prolific 2303 (2303TA in my case) wasn't supported by Windows 11 at all, but I found a workaround:

• Download and install the appropriate driver package from https://oemdrivers.com/usb-prolific-usb-to-serial-driver

• After installing, go to the Device Manager and find the device listed under Ports (COM & LPT).

• Right click on the Prolific item in the list and click on Properties.

• Click on Update Driver.

• Click on Browse my computer for drivers.

• Click on Let me pick from a list of available drivers.

• You should see a list with several Prolific driver options. I chose driver version 3.8.25.0 (7/12/2018) and the cable resumed working as expected.

Hopefully the helps someone else in the future!