Hwb - Windows Education / Enterprise licensing

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Hi guys anyone know anything about how Hwb handles Windows licenses? We have bought server licenses from our contractor but they tell us our Windows licenses go through the Hwb - I am not sure how to find out how - We image our machines with Windows 11 Education and it works fine. However for DirectAccess support only Win 11 Enterprise works, it's not supported in Win 11 EDU unlike Windows 10 EDU where it is supported.

 

I upgraded a laptop to Win 11 Enterprise using the generic key and it worked fine - accepted the key, no issues, but I remember in the day we had 50 or 100 MAK/KMS keys or whatever and I don't want to either a) run out or b) find out I just put that Win 11 Enterprise machine into a trial mode and in 60 days it goes into demo mode. I only need to upgrade a few laptops in the Summer so it's not an urgent thing (until I can get AlwaysOnVPN set up) as our 50 keys should be enough

[PotNoodleTech]

Our LA checked with HWB people, and then told us to cancel all EES/OVS licences as HWB was covering it - this was years ago. I havent bought a Windows or Office Cal since.

[mikes]

yeah we only pay for server licenses - we use our free A1 education for our own domain tenancy - it seems hwb offer an A3 subscription but I've no idea how that works as I can't log in to any o365 admin portal to take advantage of any A3 features such as the better conditional access etc (I guess they handle that) - and it would only work if we signed in with Hwb which we don't tend to really use

 

I'm guessing it doesn't cover server licenses either that or we've been paying for nothing - will check how our KMS work as that's how Hwb says it works - am sure our contractor has set us up with hwb KMS so that must be how it works - I remember them telling us about it in 2019 which is when they must have got the deal

 

https://hwb.gov.wales/support-centre/microsoft/microsoft-365-licences