JRowley

Yeah it was always intended to be very stripped down, it's meant to only receive rolled up updates, and no new features really like Edge. I didn't realise the store would be gone though, but I suppose it's meant for machines that run specific software and nothing else.

Yeah I read that, but as I wasn't getting that error I ignored it, and I didn't think it was applicable as I didn't use a product key to update to Windows 10. But anyway done now. Yeah this whole situation is really messed up. I don't know if anyone remembers the upgrade offer from 7 to 8, but basically you could get it for dirt cheap, well as it happens that means you got a license for dirt cheap. Where as with 8.1 and now 10 because it's free you don't get a license you just get a free upgrade. It's so unbelievably stupid. I wish they had charged 1p for Windows 10 just so that I wouldn't be put in this ridiculous situation where I have to install from 8 to get back to where I was in the event of a failure, or as Arthur says, ring up and beg after the offer ends.

It's specifically the LTSB, which allows you to set your installs to receive a different set of updates. I believe this means you will generally only receive larger rollups and you have the option to delay them, where as typically you will receive updates individually to be installed immediately. Of course as you say this can still be managed by WSUS/SCCM. A colleague of mine has mentioned that they may release specific educational apps/content/features to the educational version in the future, which is a good point when considering Enterprise vs Education.

Just to say for those of you waiting for a KMS key, this may apply to some of you depending on your agreement:

Can you restore to a different drive? If not you'll need to make/get 8.1 media.

I upgraded my current Windows 8.1 installation to 10, created the media, installed a clean copy of Windows 10 to my new SSD and it didn't activate. I then spent 2 hours with a service contact at Microsoft who remoted in and finally confirmed to me that it wouldn't activate because the license is linked to the original drive and the clean install will only activate on the same drive that I originally upgraded to 10 on. I waited like 18 hours and it didn't activate, so I can't imagine I did anything wrong. I don't think it means that the license is only linked to the drive in that sense. Just that you can't move it to another drive in addition to the other constraints. This only applies to the upgrade to Windows 10 and the clean install. Sorry I should have clarified, when I said "not the machine", I meant you can't just move the license around within the machine, not that the license isn't linked to the machine at all, it still is.

I've been saying this for a while, but in my view the reason has nothing to do with those of us using EES and it's likely a pricing thing for certified educational institutions who don't go down that route and do licensing differently.

AMD's (ATI) have been available since launch!

This isn't correct, the license is linked to the disk you upgraded to Windows 10 on, not the machine. I wasted a large chunk of my day trying to clean install 10 to a new drive even going as far as to contact Microsoft about why it wasn't activating and that was the reason. So the only option is to install your most recent OS which you have a product key for (in my case Windows 8) and then upgrade from there, I used the media I created initially.

It will provided you are installing to the same disk, if you want to upgrade to Windows 10 and move to an SSD you have to install Windows 7/8/8.1 on the SSD then upgrade.

I don't have the high CPU usage issue with Edge, but I do have high memory usage. For 9 tabs open it's consuming 1.5GB spread out over 6 processes (7 with the main application). It's not like it using that amount of memory is actually an issue for me as I have 16GB, but perhaps it's doing some clever memory usage to optimise my 'experience'. Edge is of course not finished, we all know this, so I suppose this shouldn't really come as a surprise.

The paranoia about this feature has been phenomenal, it's been quite interesting to watch since if Apple produced something like this it would be heralded as a remarkable step forward for humanity.

HP support is excellent for this sort of thing, you really can't argue with it. Only had to use the lifetime warranty for a switch once but was very impressed with them.

10240 is RTM since it was in fact released to manufacturing for the creation of installation disks (yes you can still buy these for Windows 10!), and also used as Arthur states by the OEMs for new machines.

We advised people on the change when it was announced, changed group policy to fix it on site for the time being and then we ended up migrating to O365 so it hasn't ended up having any impact in the end.

Audio synchronisation is easy, set the camera going, set a microphone going somewhere and then just do a loud clap infront of the camera. Simples! It's just the drift that can be an issue.

Have you changed the user's UPN to your subdomain rather than an internal domain?

This is what I'm expecting. I suppose the educational version is there for other forms of licensing, whereby you can get the educational version at a reduced rate if you are an educational institute instead of buying enterprise at full price. That's likely the reason for it, nothing to do with the EES model.

I will, so long as I can get an ISO since I'm moving to a new SSD at the same time.

Is there any chance that after you are done at your showcase school you could put together a post on the experience, any problems you encountered, etc?

Yes it is, they are feature identical with the exception of the LTSB. Here is the Microsoft page with the comparisons.

It makes practically no difference what so ever, so unless there is a pressing need for the long term servicing branch we will likely use the education version.

SCCM here, can't fault it really, works like a dream.

You could set up the start screen how you liked it and then extract an XML file which could be distributed via GPO I believe, the same is likely to be true for Windows 10 I would imagine.

I've tested it on the latest build and it appears to work fine (installed it and logged in, had a look at a couple of things, didn't run a report). Capita are typically extremely slow at supporting new operating systems, so I wouldn't expect it before Summer 2016, maybe even Spring 2017.