Windows Insider Program for Business FAQ

No, the Windows Insider Program for Business is just one of the audiences we serve through the Windows Insider Program. With extra features focused on helping enterprises participate in the program, businesses can better prepare for the future as Windows Insiders, and we can get valuable feedback from key customers to help improve Windows. Learn more about the Windows Insider Program for Business.

Yes, currently we're only supporting Microsoft Entra ID for corporate accounts. Make sure you use the same active account that you use to access your work email and other Microsoft services when registering.

To check if your work account is on Microsoft Entra ID, go to Settings > Accounts > Access work and school on a device with your work account connected. Your account will say it's connected to your company's Microsoft Entra ID if it's on Microsoft Entra ID.

If you don't have a Microsoft Entra ID, you can still join the program using your Microsoft account, but you won't be able to manage updates across devices in your company or tag and track feedback as an enterprise.

Make sure you use the same active account that you use to access your work email and other Microsoft services when registering.

Use a production tenant of Microsoft Entra ID, not a test tenant, to make the most of the program. The Microsoft Entra tenant is just used for authentication, so you won't need to worry about changes to it from the the program.

No, you can join the Windows Insider Program using your Microsoft account, but you won't be able to manage Insider Preview builds or track feedback across your organization if you don't register with a Microsoft Entra account.

First, you have to register for the program with your Microsoft Entra account. Once you've done that, go to Settings > Accounts > Access work and school to make sure your Microsoft Entra account is connected to your device. Then, go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Insider Program to change which Windows Insider account your device is connected to.

Use these instructions to register for the Windows Insider Program for Business.

Yes, you must be an admin on your device to change your update settings, so you can receive Insider Preview builds.

If you don't have admin access on your work device, you can still join the program on your personal device with your individual Microsoft account.

Yes, you can flight on as many devices as you'd like. Just make sure when giving feedback to file it from the device you're experiencing the issue on, so any diagnostic data that's included will show the issue.

Administrators can install and manage Insider Preview builds centrally across multiple devices in your organizational domain. This requires a Microsoft Entra domain, which must be registered in the Windows Insider Program.

We do not recommend organizations run Insider Preview builds outside of their test environments. These preview builds aren't the final versions, and they may change before commercial release or not be released commercially at all.

To use the Feedback Hub as an enterprise, you must have registered with a Microsoft Entra account. When you submit feedback to us through that account, you can track feedback from other users in your organization, and we can track your company's issues and suggestions.

If you were using the Feedback Hub with a Microsoft account before, your old feedback will not be transferred to your Microsoft Entra account. You'll have to switch back to your other account in Feedback Hub to access the feedback or badges tied to it. Learn more about giving feedback as a business.

You must be an admin to give an app access to your profile data, which means Microsoft Entra admins must allow the Feedback Hub to see your info. If your Microsoft Entra admin has blocked that option, you'll see this error message when logging in with your Microsoft Entra account.

Admins can unblock this in the Azure portal under Enterprise applications > User Settings by enabling Users can consent to apps accessing company data on their behalf data.

Yes, all devices need to have a valid Windows 10 license to run Insider Preview builds.

Windows 10 Insider Preview Builds are available in the following SKU languages:

Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Bulgarian (Bulgaria), Chinese (Simplified, China), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan), Croatian (Croatia), Czech (Czech Republic), Danish (Denmark), Dutch (Netherlands), English (United Kingdom), English (United States), Estonian (Estonia), Finnish (Finland), French (Canada), French (France), German (Germany), Greek (Greece), Hebrew (Israel), Hungarian (Hungary), Italian (Italy), Japanese (Japan), Korean (Korea), Latvian (Latvia), Lithuanian (Lithuania), Norwegian, Bokmål (Norway), Polish (Poland), Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian (Romania), Russian (Russia), Serbian (Latin, Serbia), Slovak (Slovakia), Slovenian (Slovenia), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain, International Sort), Swedish (Sweden), Thai (Thailand), Turkish (Türkiye), Ukrainian (Ukraine)

Windows 10 Insider Preview Builds are available in the following Language Interface Packs (LIP) languages:

Afrikaans (South Africa), Albanian (Albania), Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani (Latin, Azerbaijan), Bangla (Bangladesh), Bangla (India), Basque, Belarusian (Belarus), Bosnian (Latin), Catalan (Catalan), Cherokee (Cherokee), Dari, Filipino (Philippines), Galician (Galician), Georgian, Gujarati, Hindi (India), Icelandic, Indonesian (Indonesia), Irish, Kannada, Kazakh (Kazakhstan), Khmer (Cambodia), KiSwahili, Konkani, Kyrgyz, Lao (Laos), Luxembourgish, Macedonian (North Macedonia), Malay (Malaysia), Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian (Cyrillic), Nepali, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Odia, Persian, Punjabi, Quechua, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia), Sindhi (Arabic), Sinhala, Tamil (India), Tatar, Telugu, Turkmen, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek (Latin, Uzbekistan), Valencian, Vietnamese, Welsh