Who would use 'Enterprise' versions of Windows?

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Curious as to who this version/license is actually aimed at.
You can't seem to get it preinstalled so presumably would have to purchase in addition to the installed copy on a new machine?

The reason I ask is that I was looking at the GP settings for Windows 8 and Metro and one very useful tool, 'Applocker' is only available in the Enterprise version.

This seems somewhat odd.
 
Volume License users but it is an expensive addition irc!, as a MS partner we get shed loads of Enterprise upgrades thrown at us, its one of the better perks of being a partner that's for sure.

Its allowed us to implement Direct Access but not sure its worth it over just the pro license.
 
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I think W8/8.1 have really blurred the lines between Pro and Enterprise in that there is only a small handful of features in enterprise that's different to pro and certainly not useful to for everyone. Obviously this is potentially a good thing for the majority of businesses as it keeps licensing costs down if they don't necessarily need these additional features.

Direct Access, App Locker and NFS are the main 3 differences I can think of, where as W7 pro had far less features than enterprise: things like Bit Locker and some Remote Desktop features on top of Direct Access, App Locker and other things
 
Interesting, thank you.
For those of you who use it then, do you license as an additional cost to the OS supplied with new PCs. Presumably if that is the case you have to 'rebuild' all new machines, or do you have an arrangement with your supplier to image the machines and avoid the double cost?

Hopefully the above makes sense! I was aware of Enterprise versions but until now not really looked at what it was or how/why it is used.

We are relatively small, approx 200 PCs and typically buy maybe 40 new machines in a year.
 
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Interesting, thank you.
For those of you who use it then, do you license as an additional cost to the OS supplied with new PCs. Presumably if that is the case you have to 'rebuild' all new machines, or do you have an arrangement with your supplier to image the machines and avoid the double cost?

Hopefully the above makes sense! I was aware of Enterprise versions but until now not really looked at what it was or how/why it is used.

We are relatively small, approx 200 PCs and typically buy maybe 40 new machines in a year.
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I work for a huge English bank and yes we rebuild all machines as soon as they come in from a massive distributor (all machines come in as default with XP Pro I believe, some of the newer models used to come in with Win 7 Pro licences but I believe that doesnt happen anymore)

Each new delivery is hooked up to the network and set to build from LAN / distribution server images before being deployed to the desk
 
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I'm one of the few users of 7 Enterprise in our organisation, very much an edge case - there's maybe 3 or 4 of us. The majority use Virtual Desktops, so some form of Server I guess. The bulk of people outside of Virtual Desktops are on Macs.
 
Enterprise licenses are included if you buy Volume Licenses for your client OS and get Software Assurance, which pretty much everyone with a VL does. It's almost irrelevant what the supplied OS is (as long as it's elegible for the upgrade license that the VL agreement gives you, so a 'Pro' version of Windows) as everyone puts their own image on anyway. You can send this image to people like Dell if you want and it will come pre-installed but it's of limited use unless you're sending remote users laptops straight from the supplier.
 
Thank you bery much for all the replies, learnt quite a bit about this now.
I might have a chat about it at work and see whether we could look into getting a VL for a few licenses.
I can now see a number od the additional features would be beneficial in certain areas.
 
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