Windows 10: Getting started video says free upgrade to Windows 10 Pro with 365 Business licence, how?

I have just watched the getting started with 365 Business video and it says that you can upgrade to Windows 10 Pro with a 365 Business licence. I have a 365 business user with a new MS Surface Pro with Windows 10 Home installed, how do I upgrade to pro for free as it says?

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Microsoft 365 Business - Activating Windows 10 Pro

Microsoft 365 Business (not Office 365, but M365) still includes a subscription to Windows 10 Pro, right??

The M365 Plans page had previously shown that the "Business" version included a license to both the Office Products and Windows 10 Pro. I purchased the licenses, joined my company's PC's to the Azure AD on that tenant and ended up with a bunch of inactivated
Windows PC's. The previous parent org licensed these machines via an EA license.

My CSP is utterly useless and keeps quoting Microsoft websites about using M365 to upgrade Pro to Enterprise - but that's not what I'm trying to do.

A single one of my PC's, that I forced to update to 1809 did activate and shows my Edition as "Windows 10 Business" and my Subscription as "Windows 10 Business subscription is active." But all of my other PCs are only updating to 1803, and say that the
Activation Server is unavailable. But everything I find says the activation should be automatic for 1709 and above.

Now I'm panicking a bit because Microsoft updated their M365 page (

https://products.office.com/en-us/business/small-business-solutions?lml=false)
and removed any reference to Windows 10 in the features list.

So does anyone know what happened? Is it still included? Or did MS change their minds and pull it? And if it is included, how do I get it to activate?

Thanks in advance.

 

Microsoft 365 upgrade from Windows 10 home?

Sorry, I did not know that about the requirement that you had to be running Windows Pro for the Windows 365 subscription. In that case you may have to upgrade from Win Home to Pro for US$100 per machine ...

To get the best information you should go to this page:

Partner with Microsoft

And find a MS Partner near you. They are (supposed to be) fully up to date on the specific of license requirements.

This page:

Microsoft 365 Business | Microsoft

has a link to contact MS Sales. They should also be able give you a list of requirements.

This FAQ

Microsoft 365 Business | Microsoft

says

<snip>

must be running Windows 7, 8.1, or 10 Pro* on their current desktops. Current Windows 10 Pro PCs should be running Creators Update if they have not already done so.

*Windows 10 Pro upgrade rights are included with the Microsoft 365 Business preview if the target machines are presently running Windows 7, 8, or 8.1.

</snip>

So that suggests you MAY be able to get the Pro upgrade fro free ... by running the MS 365 preview ... It may be a loophole. You should test with a machine. Install the preview, then buy MS 365 for it and see what happens after 30 days and 6 months and
1 year (those are some of the various trial periods MS products have used of, that I'm aware of)

 

Microsoft 365 Business - Windows 10 Pro Product Lincense is not bundled

Today I learned from the assigned support engineer that Windows 10 Pro License is not bundled into Microsoft 365 Business. A Windows Pro Product License is requisite operating system to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro and take advantage of the security offering
of Microsoft 365 Business. So the pre-installed Windows 10 Home should be first upgraded to Windows 10 Pro! There seems insufficient or ambiguous details causing the confusion. Any views?