I am currently doing a Windows 10 deployment (for my sins), and I am deploying Windows 10 for Education.
However, as far as I can tell, in order to manage your features and security updates via WSUS or SCCM (which is what they do here), you need to have Windows on the Long-Term Servicing Branch (LTSB). >From Microsoft's docs, I can see that LTSB is only available for Windows 10 >Enterprise, not Education. So that means that (again, as far as I can tell) we >can only go onto Current Branch for Business (CBB), which enforces feature and >security updates after a period of 90 days. The crucial bit, though, is that >deployment via WSUS and SCCM is only available to those on the LTSB. Which >effectively means that this 17,000-seat organization will be forced into a >situation where they can only defer feature and security updates for three >months, and after that they will be installed (or risk missing out on future >updates, if they are removed). This seems a bit annoying - we have medical, engineering, scientific apps (among many others) that may react badly to certain feature or even security updates, and we would like to be able to deploy updates the way they always have, through SCCM. We can't go to Enterprise version - it's very complicated but the purchases are made by a certain organization centrally and we are entitled only to Windows 10 for Education. So am I reading all of this right? If so, it is going to raise a huge risk to this Windows 10 deployment which may possibly stop it from going ahead. Any clarification anyone can provide (Microsoft are known for arcane licensing agreements, and this makes it murkier) would be greatly appreciated.... TIA, James Rankin EUC Director | HTG TaloSys | 07809 668579 | [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> One Trinity Green, Eldon Street, South Shields, Tyne & Wear, NE33 1SA Tel: 0191 481 3489 Email address: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Website: www.talosys.co.uk<http://www.talosys.co.uk> [phpy9YoGNAM]
