Correct, CB immediately and/or 3 a year. CBB, 4 months deferral and/or 1 a 
year. LTSB, 10 years, no Windows system apps. 

Remember this parameters or update cycles is for 'features update' releases 
only. 

Cesar A.
Meaning is NOT in words, but inside people! Dr. Myles Munroe. 

> On Sep 25, 2015, at 11:19 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> It does say that, but... "Only for the deferral period". So you can use 
> WSUS...but you still have to update within the "branch" or you get excluded 
> from updates, AFAICT?
> 
> 
> Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "CESAR.ABREG0 ." <[email protected]>
> Sender: <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:36:21 
> To: [email protected]<[email protected]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows 10 for education
> 
> I read a long post from Microsoft last night and to me, it seems that you 
> will be able to manage feature release for the three version through WSUS or 
> business update server or SCCM. Though, CB needs maintain up to date. 
> 
> Best read I've seen. 
> 
> https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt598226(v=vs.85).aspx
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Cesar A.
> Meaning is NOT in words, but inside people! Dr. Myles Munroe. 
>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015, 5:51 AM James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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
>> 
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