MicrosoftYes that ship is well over the horizon now. I'll go back to Roles and Features in server, set up ENT and EDU so you can add that stuff back in if you want. Or at least make it easier to remove with GPO, not just suppress but remove. A one stop GPO to remove the "junk" would be OK and strip it down to LTSC features, maybe tick boxes to remove stuff but still in an easy to find GPO. Yes I do kill games through GPO, that goes back to XP Pro days and it will stay in case I ever need to go back to a Pro/ENT version.
I don't handle the contract details, so not sure what we are paying each year, but I bet it isn't pocket change. I think we are E5 and I'm not sure if they charge us per student or if students are free. And how they determine each computer considering that the majority are student use. It says per user, and I know we pay for employees so around $680 per year just for me. That's a lot more than someone buying a laptop with Pro to use at home, and most of our hardware comes with a Pro sticker on the side even though we are only required to have Home to be able to upgrade to ENT/EDU versions. Paying on the front end and back end.
