Windows 10: Windows 1703 pro and Windows Update for Business

I have a Windows 10 pro 1703 desktop and i found update options in

Settings > Update & security > Windows Update > Advanced options

to select between

Configure devices for Current Branch (CB)

Current Branch for Business (CBB)

Device is on CB:
DeferFeatureUpdatesPeriodinDays=30 Feature Update X is first publically available on Windows Update
as a CB in January. Device will not receive update until February, 30 days later.

Device is on CBB:
DeferFeatureUpdatesPeriodinDays=30 Feature Update X is first publically available
on Windows Update as a CB in January. Four months later, in April,
eature Update X is released to CBB. Device will receive the Feature Update 30 days
following this CBB release and will update in May.

I found this feature would be really useful for my use case,

now the ultimate question is:

as a Windows 10 pro user am i entitled to use this "Windows Update for Business"
or does this apply only to "volume license/corporate/enterprise" license?

thanks for your help.
Roy.

:)

 

Pen issues after the Fall Creator update

If you use Win 10 pro. Go to settings > Update & Security. In windows update you can select advanced options. There you can choose current branch for business and defer feature updates up to 356 days. Changing those setting and 1703 will not update to 1709
fall creators update for at least a year.

 

How update to build 1703 from enterprise

Try this: What’s new for IT pros in the Windows 10 Creators Update

How, and when, can I obtain Windows 10, version 1703?

• Windows 10, version 1703 is available for download today from theMSDN Subscriptions Center (for Visual Studio/MSDN subscribers).

Home, Pro, Education, and Enterprise SKUs are all available on MSDN

• You can download a free 90-day evaluation of Windows 10 Enterprise, version 1703 from theTechNet Evaluation Center.
• If you have already deployed Windows 10, you can get the Windows 10, version 1703 update starting Tuesday, April 11th from Windows Update or Windows Update for Business.
• If you have already deployed Windows 10 and use Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and/or System Center Configuration Manager servicing plans, you can also get the Windows 10, version 1703 update on April 11th.
• Windows 10, version 1703 will be available for download from theVolume Licensing Service Center (for Volume License customers) on May 1st.

 

Well.. CBB is for LTSB ... not sure how Pro gets it - Do you have a volume licence?

If you want feature updates then switch, dunno why that option is available tho'?

 

I do not have volume lic only regular win 10 pro,
the problem is I do not understand if i can use those settings or not ...

 

Oh, OK... but it's unusual - can you post a screenshot of winver and the win update advanced options?

 

Sure :

 

Don't understand most of the Italian stuff but its seems you have the option to go CBB.. updting mine now to check... *Wink

 

The italian stuff summarize what i posted in the first post,
no need to install for you

 

LOL.. you have such a cool Italian personality..

Yup - you are all good ..still d/l'ng the msu ... :sigh:

 

Do you mean that i am entitled to use the Current Branch for Business feature?

 

Yup.. if offered why not? ...

MS may have changed the forced updates that's all.. the "for Business" may change to something else for non-Business users.

 

Thanks Superfly for your help,

i'll wait a bit before marking as solved, you seems to be taking a guess more than
actually knoing for sure if my license is actually entitled to use such feature;
forgive my skepticism but there are so many windows 10 versions/updates that
i'm honestly very confused.

If there is someone else that knows how the "Current Branch for Business"
entitlement/availability works i kindly ask to step in or provide a microsoft
doc/link to verify.

Thanks again, Roy.

 

The choice between CB and CBB offered in Creators Update for Pro was available in previous versions too, it's just that Microsoft didn't make it clear what was going on. It was called 'Defer feature updates' in 1607, but it had exactly the same effect, it switched you to the CBB so that feature updates (ie. an upgrade to the next version) would be deferred unit that version was on CBB. Now they explicitly spell out how 'defer feature updates' works, that's all.

Overview of Windows as a service

Oh, and we'll all have to learn some new names shortly...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...naming-changes

 

As far as I can figure CBB doesn't exist - they have renamed it yet again.

This quote is from MS dated 2017-7-27 so who know what everything will be called next month but hopefully it may help some.

Overview of Windows as a service (Windows 10) | Microsoft Docs