Windows 10 Domain Machines

Cooners · 30 Jul 2015 at 10:26

Hi
My Boss wants me to stick windows 10 on our work machines, I am guessing I need to reserve first to tag the machine for the upgrade. The notification doesn't appear on domain machines (and nor should it) but how do I get it to appear so I can tag the machine and then use the ISO to upgrade.
Licenses are action pack licences if that makes any difference.
Sorry I feel I should know how to do this but MS haven't exactly explained the upgrade path for small businesses.

Danny091 · 30 Jul 2015 at 10:31

I would not be upgrading for business yet. Wait a couple of months to ensure all your apps and any bugs are fixed!

russell664 · 30 Jul 2015 at 10:53

^ Certainly to the above!

PoD · 30 Jul 2015 at 11:09

When I moved one of our test machines with Windows 10 to our domain (currently using 2008 R2), it locked out all the new metro apps including the start menu and store.

Not sure what the cause is as of yet :S

leigh_boy · 30 Jul 2015 at 11:27

PoD said:
When I moved one of our test machines with Windows 10 to our domain (currently using 2008 R2), it locked out all the new metro apps including the start menu and store.

Not sure what the cause is as of yet :S

group policy part of 10 & 8.1 is the ability for the administrator to approve purchases or the app working at all.

Cooners · 30 Jul 2015 at 11:53

Danny091 said:
I would not be upgrading for business yet. Wait a couple of months to ensure all your apps and any bugs are fixed!

Yes that's the advice we are giving our customers (we're IT support), we even have some booked in for early next year to do the upgrade however the boss feels we should be proactive and install it so we know it inside out by the time others get it and also we get hit with any issue's before we go rolling it out elsewhere.

Danny091 · 30 Jul 2015 at 11:57

In that case i would install it in a VM (dont bother activating it) that way you can play around with it but it messing up wont effect your work

randal · 30 Jul 2015 at 11:57

Tell your boss that spinning up VMs with W10 is a far more practical solution to upgrading machines.

Get the Enterprise ISO from your MSPP site, job done.

^ Damnit, this keeps happening today.

MookJong · 30 Jul 2015 at 11:59

Your boss sounds like a dangerous man..

Test environment much?

Cooners · 30 Jul 2015 at 12:20

I think his thinking is that we use it on a day to day basis to see what happens. TBH it's not the end of the world if the worst happened as everything is stored on the server and the programs we use would take seconds to reinstall, we can just stick 8 back on in an hour and we're back in business.

PoD · 30 Jul 2015 at 13:37

leigh_boy said:
group policy part of 10 & 8.1 is the ability for the administrator to approve purchases or the app working at all.

Yeah I presumed as much, but under Windows Server 2008 R2 there does not appear to be an option to enable this feature????