Intune: Upgrade Windows 10 Edition to Enterprise

For a while now, Microsoft has been talking about the opportunity to upgrade from Pro to Enterprise Edition of Windows 10 from Intune. The same is for upgrading to Education Edition if you are a School. Finaly this feature has now come to Intune. This means you can upgrade your devices by simple joining them to Azure AD

So why is this interresting?

When you buy a new Windows 10 Computer like for example a Surface Pro 4 it comes with Windows 10 Pro. The normal way to handle this for a lot of companies is to redeploy a brand ned image with Windows 10 Enterprise Edition to this device and join it to their onpremise domain.

In the new cloud world you might to just want to enable your users to join their new device to Azure AD instead. If do a simple Out Of The Box enrollment into Azure AD with Auto-Enrollment into Intune your user is just up and running in no time. But, until now, they have been stuck on running Pro Edition even though your company has the Enterprise licens.

So now we have a simple solution to upgrade from the cloud all those devices.

How do do the Edition Upgrade?

In the Intune Console create a new configuration policy for Windows.

Here you choose the Edition Upgrade Policy (Windows 10 Desktop and later)

Type your description, name and edition. Type in your MAK Key for Windows 10 Enterprise Edition. Save and Deploy to your Windows 10 Devices.

It is as simple as this.

Filed under: Activation, Client, Cloud, Deployment, Enrollment, Intune, QuickTip, Windows 10 Tagged: AzureAD, Deployment, EMS, Intune, Join, Lumagate, Microsoft, Windows 10