Windows 10 ?s

[yhttech]

I am planning on starting to test Windows 10 for a potential summer refresh project. I see in my VLSC downloads Education, Enterprise and Professional flavors, with the Enterprise having 2015 and 2016 LTSB options available for download. From my research, it seems that the LTSB is some sort of update path, am I correct? I also saw that one of those doesn't support WSUS - I think that was Education. Which flavor have you used and why?

[timbo343]

LTSB as i know what im deploying will work until I'M ready to update, that could be 5 years. Also LTSB doesnt come with the windows bloatware or cortana.

[Blue_Cookeh]

I am planning on starting to test Windows 10 for a potential summer refresh project. I see in my VLSC downloads Education, Enterprise and Professional flavors, with the Enterprise having 2015 and 2016 LTSB options available for download. From my research, it seems that the LTSB is some sort of update path, am I correct? I also saw that one of those doesn't support WSUS - I think that was Education. Which flavor have you used and why?

 

Education, since thats the only edition the OVS EES agreement covered (although I hear this has changed).

 

Either way, I'd be deploying CBB instead of LTSB. If you have SCCM then CBB upgrades aren't an issue, and it means I don't have to go around reinstalling fleets of machines everytime a new OS comes out.

[psydii]

LTSB will limit the improvements you see through general servicing of Windows over its deployment life. Education/CBB is the edition you want.

 

Apple Google and Microsoft have moved away from the wipe and re-load model of upgrades. They now come thick and fast and of varying degrees of magnitude.

 

SCCM is also on a similar rapid update cadence. I am convinced that the benefits of CBB will outweigh the occasional regression / bug. I've been deploying hotfixes into production as a matter of course since Windows 2000 the 'big' release versions (including the service packs) were never sufficiently working without them.

 

In some ways the new model bring to the masses what the more progressive large Enterprise customers with Premier Support contracts were doing anyway.

[yhttech]

Yea, I figured that out about LTSB.