Windows 10: Can we install Windows 10 Enterprise Edtion on Surface Pro 4 ?

Hello alphanumeric.

I am not the OP but to your points > I know nothing about Update for Business > plead ignorance *Sad

About PRO, don't understand what the OP said.
I used PRO for months and never received an update.

Cannot speak to the OP's point > I only use Enterprise LTSB because it is bare bones.
At the moment, I like Server 2016.

 

apologies >

 

True

 

My point is, if you can block all updates with Pro, why go with Enterprise? Assuming, that's all the Op wants to do. If he wants control over which updates get applied, I don't think just installing Enterprise will be enough. You will still need access to Windows Update For Business. That's my understanding, I don't have access to that service so even with Enterprise I get my updates just like any other version of Windows 10. Via Windows Update.

Really, it all comes down to whether the OP has license to run Enterprise or not?

 

Thanks looks like it will work.

 

I can run enterprise. I was just going off reading reports online about how the new Windows 10 AU is not respecting Group policies and biased towards active hours. Would hate to be doing something and have a restart. I also always have at least 10 tabs open with important info i need to reference. I don't want my pc to shutdown even if im not using it at that moment and its not an active hour.

Also it looks like microsoft is moving more and more features power users use to the higher editions.
Taken from the Microsoft support page

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2. With Windows Pro you had the option (using Group Policy Editor) to disable the Lock Screen. I have no use for it and had it disabled in both Win 8 and Win 10 until now. However with the Anniversary Update, Windows 10 is ignoring that GP Edit setting. WHY??? I smell new ads coming.

Microsoft has moved many of the previously available GPO's to the premium business edition of Windows 10, Enterprise, only available Volume License Customers. "

I remember last year when i needed a feature " I forget the exact one" and Since I was not on a higher version I couldn't use it" however since i have the opportunity to use the enterprise edition I might as well and not have to worry about it later.

Are you on the anniversary update? Before i updated to it i could defer the upgrade easily and see what windows was trying to download. I could also easily ignore updates if I wanted to.

 

New information: Yes, you may be right.
All previous systems, well, 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 build (10240) were controlled by that GP setting.

This is the same build as 10 Anniversary





If you're right > then that GP setting has been disabled.
So, the disabled setting no longer applies. ? *Shock
Don't know yet.
I'll be surprised if unrequested updates happen !
I just did a clean install today of this system on my Alienware.
Will keep an eye on it to see if any unrequested updates happen.

 

That post clears a lot of things up, thanks for the added info. I have run Enterprise in the past. Mainly to play around with Windows To Go. I haven't ever tried to turn auto updates off. It hasn't been an issue for me and I haven't felt the need to do so. Currently I'm running Education, no Cortana and it also has Windows To Go. It will be interesting to see if you get the control over updates that you want by switching to Enterprise. I can't say one way or the other if you'll get what your after. I just don't know the answer to that question?
I would say though, that the odds are likely very high that somebody at Microsoft is already running Enterprise on a Surface, I wouldn't expect to run into any driver issues. Windows 10 drivers are Windows 10 drivers, Home, Pro etc shouldn't matter.

 

Actually since 14352 you can now downgrade from Enterprise to Pro. Before you needed a clean install.

You can also move from Enterprise Evaluation -> Enterprise -> Pro without re-installing (if you have a Pro key of course). I was corrected on this recently by @here) and it does in fact work fine.

 

That comment was made about Windows 10 Enterprise trial version, I apparently forgot the word trial. The trial version of Windows 10 Enterprise cannot be converted to a retail version of any edition.

Anyway, that comment was part of "subtopic" of this thread, if Enterprise trial would be something to OP; the main topic is and has been if OP should use Enterprise or not.