Windows 10: Activating Windows 10 Education License

Hi,

My name is Sahan Jayatissa and I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Auckland. I bought a Windows 10 Education Edition Key from the University of Auckland hub that I was going to use on a PC that I built a week ago. However, when I went to activate Windows on a Windows Home version using the activation feature the product key would give me an error and would not activate. Could you please advise me on what I could do to rectify this issue?

Thanks,
Sahan

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Windows 10 Education Pro

I've not had an opportunity to test Pro Education edition yet but I am running normal Education on a Hyper-V virtual machine and on dual boot with Pro on a laptop. Basically Education is exactly as Enterprise, meant for domain or Azure AD use. Main differences when compared to Pro are missing Cortana and no possibility to use Microsoft account as initial user account when setting up Windows, although when selecting initial user as local domain user a normal local account will be created which can then be switched to a Microsoft account instead of joining a domain.

Native Windows apps in Windows 10 Education edition are the same than in Pro edition, Cortana being the only exception.

If you already have setup Windows 10 Pro on your machines with a customised image I can see no benefits in doing the job again deploying an almost similar OS. This is of course only my personal subjective opinion based on what I know at the moment; I have no knowledge or insight about what additional features (see highlighted part in quote below) Pro Education might be and if they would be reason enough to upgrade to Pro Education.

Quote from https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...tion-customers:

 

How to transfer a Educational WIN10 License?

Download Windows 10 Education, reinstall it then reactivate using the product key you got from the Store.

Download Windows 10 Education ISO files

If you attend a college or university, your institution might provide you with the Education edition of Windows 10. If you are only provided with a license (product key), you can download the .ISO file from the Microsoft Download Academic Products website.

Go to the following link: Download Windows 10 Academic ISO





Scroll down then enter your Windows 10 Education product key, then click verify





Create a bootable copy:

• How
  to Prepare Bootable Install Media for Windows 10 - DVD, USB or SD Card

You might need to use chat support to reactivate:

• Activate Your Windows 10 License via Microsoft Chat Support

 

Activating WINDOWS 10 Education

Does it matter that this article is about Windows 10 Pro or do I have to follow the same steps to activate windows education on Windows 10 Home?Thanks a lot