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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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Mark Burland
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Nov 20, 2025

Since we are in year 1, do I leave the year 2 and year 3 keys as "Your-Year-2-ESU-Key-Here" in the remediation script until we enter year 2, and then update the script?