Lately, the Indian authorities issued a warning in regards to the upcoming finish of assist for Home windows 10 which is about 4 months away. Apparently, on that very day, Microsoft made a serious announcement concerning this because the tech large debuted free enrollment choices whereby assist could be prolonged for one more yr at no further price.

Microsoft can be making an attempt to make it simple to arrange Prolonged Safety Updates (ESU) with a brand new software. You possibly can see within the picture under:

Following that, at the moment, the corporate has shared a brand new information on the right way to activate ESU through Intune within the case of Home windows 10 workplace PCs that aren’t supported on Home windows 11. First up, Microsoft has reminded customers of the stipulations of Home windows 10 ESU:

• The system must be on Home windows 10 22H2 with KB5046613 (November 2024 Patch Tuesday) or newer.

• The machine wants entry to the community endpoints required for consumer activation.

• The method that’s used for activation wants administrative privileges on the machine.

The information comprises a number of PowerShell scripts and are meant for IT admins and system admins. A kind of is a validation script “Test-Win10ESUPrereq.ps1” that Microsoft has printed to assist “confirm a tool has the required model and patch degree for Home windows and it may possibly talk to the required community endpoints.” Primarily, it checks if the aforementioned necessities are happy and can be utilized for troubleshooting towards these stipulations.

After the “validation,” Microsoft says there are two methods to proceed with the ESU key activation. First. it may be accomplished by both Remediation by: Detection Script (Win10ESUActivation-detect.ps1) and Remediation Script (Win10ESUActivation-remediate.ps1).

And second, by Win32 Utility with Win32 Set up Script (Win10ESU-install.ps1) and Win32 Detection Script (Win10ESU-detection.ps1).

Within the case of Remediations, Microsoft mentions “some licensing issues” on account of which “some smaller corporations might not have that possibility.”

Lastly, Microsoft has additionally shared some Activation IDs for handbook verification through Slmgr VB script for acquiring quantity activation data:

• Win10 ESU Year1: f520e45e-7413-4a34-a497-d2765967d094

• Win10 ESU Year2: 1043add5-23b1-4afb-9a0f-64343c8f3f8d

• Win10 ESU Year3: 83d49986-add3-41d7-ba33-87c7bfb5c0fb

You possibly can verify the total information and the small print right here on Microsoft’s official Tech Group web site.