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Autopilot - Win10 Home OEM Device & Education A5 / assigning Win 10 Education licence
This is a difficult situation you find yourself in. I can't think of a way that you can avoid needing Windows 10 Pro on the device first as this is going to be needed to join the devices to Azure AD. Did the supplier make a mistake and send with the wrong version of Windows 10 or was your order incorrect?
PeterRising No it wasnt a mistake or anything but more a case of me starting on this project , spotting that this was the case - the first batch of laptops were ordered before I even started the job and this project was in play. Ive flagged it and we are trying to adjust for the second order batch, but Im looking to see if there was some workaround for the first order if it is too late to switch to a different OEM license version. The vendor is being contacted and we are seeing if there is a way we can get pro OEM so hopefully that will work out.
I do think the licensing model overall needs simplifying though and in regards autopilot a good solution would be if you could assign a license (or licensed user) to a registered hardware ID so autopilot could check in and see if it was registered and if there was a enterprise license assigned it would know to install as that regardless of it being a Home OEM or not.
Agreed that there could be some improvements made here. Autopilot has improved greatly in recent times and am sure will continue to get better.
Hope you manage to get the adjustment made with your vendor.
