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Thomas Cezario
Brass Contributor
Oct 11, 2018

Microsoft 365 E5 - Windows 10 subscription activation for hybrid Azure AD joined devices

We have On Premises AD synced to Office365 (Azure) and Users having "Microsoft 365 E5" Licences.

Dell Desktops with Windows 10 PRO 1803 version joined to On-Premises AD and they are Activated to Windows PRO. Also Windows 10 Machines are showing in Azure AD Portal with "Hybrid Azure AD joined" and dsregcmd /status shows AzureAdJoined : YES.

 

But Machines are not getting upgraded from PROD to Enterprise.

 

Can you please help me what can be done in this issue.

 

Is there any alternate Method or some Manual command or tool from which we can Upgrade them to Enterprise.

 

Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    The below mentioned GPO/registry modifications are required in order to get the Windows Enterprise upgrade.

    Please Disable ‘Do not connect to any Windows Update Internet locations’ GPO/Registry key.

    GPO Location:

    Configure the policy value for Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Update -> "Do not connect to any Windows Update Internet locations" to "Disabled".

    Registry Key Location:

    Registry Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry Path: \SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate

    Value Name: DoNotConnectToWindowsUpdateInternetLocations

    Value Type: REG_DWORD
    Value: 0

    Note: It may take upto 24 hrs. for the Enterprise upgrade to take effect.
  • Do the users login on the machine with their azure credentials? (UPN)
    Make sure they are!
    Also check that windows 10 license tab is checked within the licensing tab on the users

    Also I hit a wall doing this because of the licensing on the machines today for different reasons! Are you sure the machines have an active Win10 PRO license?
    Try running this script on a test machine:

    (Copy the text below into a .cmd file and run the file from an elevated command prompt:)
    @echo off
    FOR /F "skip=1" %%A IN ('wmic path SoftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey') DO (
    SET "ProductKey=%%A"
    goto InstallKey
    )

    :InstallKey
    IF [%ProductKey%]==[] (
    echo No key present
    ) ELSE (
    echo Installing %ProductKey%
    changepk.exe /ProductKey %ProductKey%
    )
    ..........................................................
    That solved it for me!

    You seemed to get the join process right so you’re pretty close now :)

    • Thomas Cezario's avatar
      Thomas Cezario
      Brass Contributor

      Follow the result

      Status

      Windows version continues with Windows 10 Pro enabled.

      Status Hybrid Azure ADThanks

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