Windows 10: Windows 11 upgrade to Win 11 Pro Work Account Errors

I have recently bought a work computer with Windows 11 Home 23H2 and wondered why I was have issues connecting to my work computersI have a simple setup of P2P computers all running Win 11 Pro and one machine acting as a server with no special setting just all users are mapped to the local drive.We have 5 Microsoft Business Standard work accounts with 5 existing computers.This new computer is going to replace one of the existing machines.I paid and upgraded this new computer to Win 11 Pro and tried to add my work accounts to this computer in System>Accounts>Add New AccountI even tried &g

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How To Upgrade Win 11 Home to Win 11 Pro w/ M365 E3 Subscription

I recently purchased a new laptop, and it came with Win 11 Home. I wouldn't normally buy a new machine with the Home edition, however, I knew my M365 E3 subscription includes Win 10/11 Pro, so I thought I'd be able to upgrade it. No so, at least not yet.

My impression was once I register the laptop using my E3 account, I would then have the option to upgrade to Pro, but that doesn't seem to be possible for me. Admittedly, I'm very likely missing something obvious, but I do need help.

Here's the Trouble (and some add'l notes): I've tried everything I can think of to make this happen and I've read countless Microsoft Docs and community questions, but I continue to hit dead end after dead end.

Notes

• Added work account (E3) account in Settings and ensure the laptop is registered in Azure AD.
  
• Intune doesn't see the device and when I attempt to sync it with my domain, I receive an error which states, "The sync could not be initiated (0x80190190 Bad Request (400)". I feel like I'm missing a URL in a policy or need to create a policy, but I genuinely don't know.
  
• I created a Win 11 Pro install w/ a flash drive. Went through the process to upgrade, but never saw what I expected to see (request to authenticate w/ 365 account).
  

Does anyone have step-by-step instructions to:

1. Ensure I've done all the prerequisite steps in my tenant (registered with domain, managed by Intune if that's necessary, anything else).
   
2. Upgrade it from Win 11 Home to Win 11 Pro using my E3 subscription.
   

All I want to do is upgrade it to Pro so I can join it to my Azure AD domain. I don't want to buy a Pro license since I'm already paying for it. That's all.

Please help.

 

Upgrade to Win 11 Pro from Win 10 Pro and keep local account

I agree this has nothing to do with a Windows 10 to Windows 11 upgrade. I did that a few months ago where my local account was preserved. However, for a clean install of Windows 11 Microsoft does its best to make you use a Microsoft account but you can still bypass that with the current release ISO 21H2 for Windows 11. I agree the old workarounds no longer work but the new one I used still do. I installed both Windows 11 Home and Windows 11 Pro just last week. Note I only have local accounts for each one. BTW, the next Windows 11 release, 22H2 is scheduled to be released on September 20. I will be checking it to see if the Microsoft account is required for that one. Also, a person might want to wait until 22H2 is available until they upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11.

 

Windows 11 Home to Pro upgrade

Want to upgrade 11 Home to 11 Pro. Tried download, but apparently files transferred were for 11 Enterprise. This will not activate; error is "invalid digital license or product key". This is on a new Surface. How to proceed?

Can withdraw/delete this. The suggestion to downgrade - listed below - with a 'fake' windows 10 key works.