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Enabling Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10 with Intune

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Jon Warnken
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Jun 26, 2025

Guidance on enabling Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10 using Intune, especially for systems that cannot be upgraded to Windows 11

Hello everyone, Jon Warnken a Cloud Solutions Architect. This Blog post contains several PowerShell scripts and to not overwhelm you with a wall of code, the scripts are included in collapsible secti...
Updated Oct 20, 2025
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vontier
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Sep 25, 2025

Good day,

 

I'm testing the Windows10ESU-Install and detection Ps script manually, got successfully applied the ESU key but not able to get it detected by detection script. I put the MAK key as requested also in the detection script but the result is that no valid ESU key is installed but if I run Slmgr /dlv <Activation ID> I got licensed result. anyone else get same problem?