Windows 10: How to Upgrade from Windows Home to Pro>Enterprise with E3 license

Hi,My company recently purchased a Surface laptop for one of our employees. This laptop came with windows Home instead of Pro. We used to get the Pro image from the Microsoft Partner Center and activate Enterprise with our E3 licenses. Since Gold and Silver competencies will be retired on Sep 30, 2022, we no longer have a way to upgrade our new devices to Pro. How can I upgrade to Pro to log in with our work accounts E3 licensed?Thanks in advance,Aaron

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Does M365 E3 license (trough EA/Volume licensing) also give right to Win 10 Enterprise LTSC (IOT)?

Thanks Carl!

Diving deeper on this, I come to the following:

1. Having M365 E3 at itself gives right to upgrade to Windows 10 Enterprise.
2. The Product terms clearly exclude lower editions like Win 10 Ent LTSB/LTSC (which is apparently the same as the IOT) when it comes to certain M365 Suites like the F and the Business suite. No such exclusions are present for the E3 or the E5. Knowing the
   IOT is a bit "dressed down" version of the Win 10 ENT, the Win 10 Enterprise should give you the right to opt for the Win 10 IOT Ent. edition, if you do not have a plan that specifically excludes this.
3. The right to upgrade using the Win 10 Enterprise Upgrade option in your E3 suite, assumes there is an underlying OEM/qualifying license for your OS.
4. The Win10 Qualifying OS guidelines state:
   
   The following operating systems qualify for the Windows 10 Pro Upgrade and/or
   Windows 10 Enterprise Upgrade through Microsoft Volume Licensing:
5. Followed by a list of OS' that are required and give right to perform an upgrade via the Win 10 Enterprise Upgrade option in your suite (in this case the M365 E3 suite).

So I would say based on this that it is possible to upgrade to Win 10 IOT Enterprise/LTSC if you also comply with the Qualifying OS list.

So for example:

- if you have Windows 7 Embedded POSReady devices, then you cannot upgrade these via the the E3 to either Windows 10 Enterprise or Windows 10 IOT Enterprise, as it is not a qualifying OS.

- if you have Windows Embedded 8.1 Pro, you should be able to upgrade to either Windows 10 Enterprise or Windows 10 IOT Enterprise, as it is a qualifying OS.

Or I am completely wrong and missing something essential here...

 

Windows Enterprise E3 not working

Good Evening,

I bought Windows Enterprise E3 (Local Only) subscription directly from Microsoft (Buy services tab in Office 365 Portal). I assigned a license to a user and confirmed it in Azure Portal. However, when I joined Windows 10 Pro machine to Azure AD (signed using
the same username), I still have "Windows 10 Pro" listed in the system information.

 

Windows 10 Enterprise E3 (local only)

Windows 10 Enterprise E3 is a subscription, so you don't get a product key. The license is attached to your account and your device is automatically upgraded from Windows 10 Pro. If the subscription is not maintained, you are downgraded to Pro.