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Windows 10 Supscription license (M365 E3) not Activating
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@Chris_Ruggieri is the current Win 10 pro OS licensed and activated? I only ask because I had a similar issue when I purchased M365 E5 & saw several post similar to my issue in that in order to get the OS to activate the subscription license and migrate to enterprise you had to have a valid pro subscription for windows 10 currently activated you couldn’t just download window 10 and have it activate as enterprise when you logged in. Which was inconvenient as I was testing and had to buy a win 10 pro license"
sxc7886I've tried it both with my client's KMS activation and without. Neither way was successful. I've also tried using the Evaluation edition, which should have provided the same results. My client has asked me to test this out before they buy several thousand M365 E3 licenses. If I can't get it to work or if it is this big of a fiasco to activate every one of them, then I can assure you that they will not be subscribing. This should not be this difficult.
Step 1: Install Windows
Step 2: Join to Azure AD
Step 3: Assign License
Step 4: It activates
End of story. We should not have to be jumping through 4 million hoops on this and I will not buy a Pro license just so that it activates. That's insane. Are we going to need to install Pro every single time we reimage a machine??? That's bonkers. This should be a simple Tier 1 fix not a (what is now going on) 3 week affair.
Chris_Ruggieri Did you get this issue resolved? We are dealing with the same issue and have been working with MS for four weeks and they have no idea why it is not working for us.
- In a nutshell? Nope. I bought a Pro license for that one machine and my client decided NOT to move on the subscription model and in fact are starting to train new arrivals on either MacBook or Linux Mint. You would think this would be an easy hop, but MS licensing was created by and can only be understood by people with a PhD in craziness. So, far the client has move 400 servers over to Linux boxes and 200+ of their 7000 endpoints over to either Mac or Linux. MS lost a major customer on that one. My contact with that company expired and they were in good shape to keep going without me so I've moved on to a different engagement.