Windows 10: 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 Business and Windows 10 Licensing

Hello

A pleasure to help you.

I recommend reading the following article and understand that it is Microsoft 365 Business.

Microsoft 365 is an integrated solution that brings together best-in-class productivity tools, security, and device management capabilities for small to medium-sized businesses.

A holistic set of business productivity and collaboration tools

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, and Access

Exchange, OneDrive, Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint

Business apps from Office (Bookings, Outlook Customer Manager, MileIQ1, Microsoft Listings1, Microsoft Connections1, Microsoft Invoicing1)

What is Windows 10 Business?

Windows 10 Business is a set of cloud-services and device management that complement Windows 10 Pro and enable the centralized management and security controls of Microsoft 365 Business. Windows 10 Business also comes with Windows AutoPilot, a service that
streamlines the deployment of new Windows 10 PCs. If you have devices that are licensed for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 Professional, Microsoft 365 Business provides an upgrade to Windows 10 Pro which is the prerequisite for deploying Windows 10 Business.

Any doubt can consult the following article.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/...

I hope it will be very helpful.

Let me know.

Greetings Dayamis

 

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?

 

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

I'm surprised to! But looks like the Tech was right, Windows 10 Pro isn't included: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business

I thought that was the whole selling point is it rolled up Windows 10, Office, Security, and a bunch of other features. I don't think my tenant is going to both going to Microsoft 365 Business as it just doesn't pencil out. We'll stick with Office 365 and
volume license of Windows 10 Enterprise.