In our case, we are targeting a Windows 10 computer that is running Windows 10 Everything is now ready to deploy to our Windows 10 computers.
For our example, we will be upgrading a Windows 10 to Windows 10 21H1. This task sequence can also be used to upgrade existing Windows 7 or 8. To install the Windows 10 21H1 operating system, the process is fairly the same except to start the deployment.
If you encounter any issues, please see our troubleshooting guide. Once Windows 10 is added to your Software Update Point , we will create a Software Update deployment that will be deployed to our Windows 10 deployment collection.
This is really the most straight forward and fastest method to deploy. As stated in the introduction of this post, you can use Servicing Plan to automate the Windows 10 deployment. You can only deploy this Enablement Package to Windows 10 Version and 20H2 devices that have installed the or later Cumulative Update. This is called Hard Block. We have numerous resources on our site for advanced monitoring and we also have pages that cover the whole topic.
This guide can be found in our shop. We developed a report to help you achieve that :. You must be logged in to post a comment. For brand new computers Windows 10 deployment, Task Sequences are the only option. We will cover all the options in this post. The path must point to an extracted source of an ISO file. You need to point at the top folder where Setup. Also enter valid credentials to join the domain.
In the Install Configuration Manager tab, select your Client Package On the State Migration tab, select if you want to capture user settings and files. This is the collection that will receive the Windows 10 upgrade. For testing purposes, we recommend putting only 1 computer to start On the Deployment Settings tab, select the Purpose of the deployment Available will prompt the user to install at the desired time Required will force the deployment at the deadline see Scheduling You cannot change the Make available to the following drop-down since upgrade packages are available to clients only On the Scheduling tab, enter the desired available date and time.
To create or modify an Unattend. In the Unattend. More information on Windows System Image Manager here. Starting with Windows 10, version , you can create a deep link to launch the Windows 10 enrollment app using an URI link. This allows to send a user-friendly display text to your user to simplify their device enrollment. You can use this link in an email sent to your users or add this link to an internal web page that users refer for enrollment.
At the time of this writing, the only supported mode value is mdm. Starting with Windows 10, v deep linking is only supported for connecting devices to MDM. It will not support adding a work or school account, joining a device to Azure AD, and joining a device to Active Directory. When clicking the link, Windows 10 will launch the enrollment app in a special mode that only allows MDM enrollments. For example, you could send the following link to your users : Click here to enroll your Windows 10 device.
This is fairly straight forward, no need to explain to the user how to find the enrollment app. This process is similar to the Enroll into device management option in Windows 10, v If the device finds an endpoint that only supports on-premises authentication, the page will change and ask for the user password.
If the device finds an MDM endpoint that supports federated authentication, the user will be presented with a new window that will ask additional authentication information. Users may also be prompted to provide a second factor of authentication if your IT policy requires it.
See this Technet article for further details about MDM enrollment and Windows 10 deep link enrollment. Since then, each new release of Windows and Office provided a necessary update to KMS server, in order to keep offering activation keys to Windows and Office clients.
The release of Windows 10 KMS activation and Office activation is no different then previous versions. In this post, we will covert how to use an already configured KMS server for activation of Windows 10 and Office Your existing KMS server will most probably be good to manage licenses for Windows 10 and Office To find which server is acting as your KMS :.
This mean that until the minimum concurrent activation request is met, the KMS server is not offering licenses for Windows and Office client.
This key is good for Windows 10 and Windows Server R2. Because of this, it will likely result in meeting the minimum requirement for this key, as you probably already have 5 Windows Server R2. Once the key is activated, the first Windows 10 will be able to get an activation key from the KMS server.
No need for the 25 Windows 10 threshold. KMS key for Windows 10 is the same no matter which branch you are using. By default, Windows will look for a KMS server automatically if no key is specified in the setup or after Windows installation. This will generate a new KMS server on your network. Read the Technet article for more information. The Volume Activation Management Tool is designed to help administrator management licenses for Windows and Office products.
This is an optional step and it can be installed on any computer on your network. When you have the minimum 25 concurrents Windows 10 on your network, you can use VAMT to change the activation method of clients remotely instead of using the manual process describe earlier in this post.
This will force a new try to find a KMS server for Windows 10 on the network. Once 25 computers is reached, KMS server will be up and allowing further activation. Read the Technet article for more information on troubleshooting KMS. We encountered the following issues in various environments :.
Windows as a service provides a new way to think about building, deploying, and servicing the Windows operating system. Microsoft will releases new builds two to three times per year rather than the traditional upgrade cycle.
Instead of doing traditional Windows deployment projects, you will need a continuous updating process which will reduce the overall effort required to maintain Windows 10 devices in your environment. We have broken down the post in 4 different sections :. The Windows 10 servicing dashboard provides information about Windows 10 computers in your environment, active servicing plans, compliance information, and so on.
The Windows 10 Servicing Dashboard is a good starting point but it lacks important functions to be able to do your work to update Windows 10 as tiles are not clickable :. For those reasons, we decided to make your life easier by developing tools to help with your Windows 10 upgrades deployments. Some report in the Upgrade Assessment may help you but some of those reports are limited to Windows 7 and Windows 8.
We decided to create our own Windows 10 report. Similar to the Windows 10 dashboard visually but which can easily list machines in different support state and their inventory. See our Asset — Windows 10 report page to see the complete feature list. As for any other deployments, you will need to create your own device collections in order to deploy your Windows 10 service plans or task sequences.
Our Set of operational collections contains 67 collections which contains 9 Windows 10 collections to begin with :. To decide which methods suits your organisation needs, read our complete step-by-step post which guide you thought the whole process :.
Using a combination of the tools provided in this post, you should be set to start your Windows 10 as a service management. Feel free to provides tips and other tools that make your life easier using the comment section. With the introduction of new Windows 10 service branches , you will need to upgrade your Windows 10 devices at a much faster pace.
This is fixed in SCCM , using a new filter you can exclude unwanted languages and editions. The Task Sequence method allows to run additional tasks after the upgrade or install new applications. Read both our post before making your decision or use both if needed. You can use this method to upgrade any upcoming Windows 10 release. This is a bit confusing. The short story : At the time of this writing, the build is in the Current Branch readiness state.
If you have both available at the time of creating your servicing plan, use the Upgrade package since it includes Servicing Updates. Long Story : If you want the Microsoft version, refer to the complete Technet documentation.
Servicing plans are designed to upgrade Windows 10 from one build to another build only. Looking at the Windows 10 Servicing dashboard, our 3 Windows 10 are near expiration Expire Soon. Now that the deployment are triggered for clients, we will launch the installation manually using software center. Now that our task sequence is targeted to our Windows 10 device, we need to open the Software Center to initiate the upgrade process.
Upgrade Readiness formerly Upgrade Analytics enables you to assess and analyze device readiness with Windows You are able to target devices for upgrade or remediation from the device list. These improvements streamline how you configure the Azure services you use with Configuration Manager. You must connect Upgrade Readiness to the top-tier site in your hierarchy.
If you connect Upgrade Readiness to a standalone primary site and then add a central administration site to your environment, you must delete and recreate the OMS connection within the new hierarchy.
Be patient! Microsoft has been releasing Security baseline since the Windows XP days. The concept of the Security Baseline is to provide Microsoft guidance for IT administrators on how to secure the operating system, by using GPOs, in the following areas :. Implementing the security baseline in GPOs is not a complex or long task. The challenge that the security baseline provide is that it will expose areas of the environment that are not secure.
This means that to follow all Microsoft security guidelines, it would be required to fix many other systems outside of Windows 10 to achieve this. In this post, we will describe what is the Security baseline, how to use them and key points that will most likely be challenging for other systems in the environment. Here are some configurations that are part of the baseline that should be looked at up front as they might provide issues with your environment. The idea here is to have a better understanding of what is going on.
The issues should be fixed at the other end for better security. The processing of Group Policy failed. Review the following post by Lee Stevens for details on the UNC hardening path to help define this setting for your environment. More details on this KB from Microsoft. The default Windows 10 level is set to Notify me only when applications try to make changes to my computer level 3 out of 4.
Having Credential guard in Windows 10 is categorized as a quick win solution as the requirement and setup is easy. The default configuration as part of MSFT Windows 10 and Server — Credential Guard GPO is configured in a way that is likely to crash the computer or have an undesired requirement for future needs if applied as is. To take advantage of Credential Guard safely, this would be the required configuration.
This topic is the most important of all key points. With Windows 10 v, SMB v1 is disabled by default. But what if you still need this in your environment? Let me make this clear, we do not recommend enabling SMB v1. It has been proven to be one of the most critical security hole as of late with malware like WannaCry.
See the following blog post by Aaron Margosis for details on the issue. Follow us on Twitter to get a notification when a new version of the Security baseline is released.
Customers who are federated with Azure Active Directory are also eligible. For more information, see Review requirements on devices , later in this topic. When you have the required Azure AD subscription, group-based licensing is the preferred method to assign Enterprise E3 or E5 licenses to users. A per-user PowerShell scripted method of assigning licenses is available.
Organizations can use synchronized AD groups to automatically assign licenses. What will the users experience? How will they upgrade their devices? During the initial setup, on the Who owns this PC? To join a device to Azure AD when the device already has Windows 10 Pro, version installed and set up. If your device is running Windows 10, version or later, this step is not needed.
From Windows 10, version , the device will automatically activate Windows 10 Enterprise using the firmware-embedded activation key. Figure 7a - Windows 10 Pro activation in Settings.
Once the device is joined to your Azure AD subscription, the user will sign in by using his or her Azure AD account, as illustrated in Figure 8.
The Windows 10 Enterprise E3 or E5 license associated with the user will enable Windows 10 Enterprise edition capabilities on the device. You can use this information to help you diagnose the licensing and activation process.
Active Directory-joined and Azure Active Directory-joined clients are supported. The most common problems that users may experience are as follows:. Figure 9 see the section above illustrates a device in a healthy state, where Windows 10 Pro is activated and the Windows 10 Enterprise subscription is active. Figure 10 below illustrates a device on which Windows 10 Pro is not activated, but the Windows 10 Enterprise subscription is active.
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For a list of operating systems that qualify for the Windows 10 Pro Upgrade or Windows 10 Enterprise Upgrade through Microsoft Volume. Learn how to deploy Windows 10 in a test lab using Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager.
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Windows 10 pro to enterprise sccm free - http://replace.me
I had a problem where we had a bunch of computers that had win10 Pro Education and we needed fix them for Win10 Pro. I created a package with the following *.bat file being pushed to them (Note: you would need to put your enterprise key in). Echo Off. replace.me /ipk XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX. replace.me /ato. Windows 10 installed as pro instead of enterprise. We deploy windows 10 with sccm Some clients gets pro version instead of enterprise. We tried to remove all versions from the wim file except enterprise but no change. We also set the product key in the TS and yet some client get pro version. May 19, · Make sure to run a full synchronisation to make sure that the new Windows 10 21H1 is available. Open the SCCM Console. Go to Software Library / Software Updates / All Software Updates. On the right side, click Add Criteria, select Product, Expired and Superseded.
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Windows 10 pro to enterprise sccm free. Perform an in-place upgrade to Windows 10 using Configuration Manager
Learn how to perform an in-place upgrade to Windows 10 by automating the process with a Microsoft Endpoint Manager task sequence. You don't need to change the operating system base language; You don't need to downgrade a SKU (Enterprise to Pro). The only supported path is. Solution: You can create a provisioning package (ppkg) and deploy that, but getting it to run silently doesn't seem to be all that easy.
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