If the output is blank, the device does not have a firmware embedded activation key. Most OEM-provided devices designed to run Windows 8 or later will have a firmware-embedded key. If you are an EA customer with an existing Office tenant, use the following steps to enable Windows 10 Subscription licenses on your existing tenant:.
After placing an order, the OLS admin on the agreement will receive a service activation email, indicating their subscription licenses have been provisioned on the tenant.
Use the following process if you need to update contact information and retrigger activation in order to resend the activation email:. Users will use their domain-based credentials to sign in to the AD DS domain. You might ask why you need to synchronize these identities. This means that users can use their existing credentials to sign in to Azure AD and access the cloud services that you provide and manage for them. Azure AD Connect is a service that you can install on-premises or in a virtual machine in Azure.
If you are implementing Azure AD, and you already have an on-premises domain, you don't need to integrate with Azure AD, since your main authentication method is your internal AD.
If you want to manage all your infrastructure in the cloud, you can safely configure your domain controller remotely to integrate your computers with Azure AD, but you won't be able to apply fine controls using GPO.
Azure AD is best suited for the global administration of devices when you don't have any on-premises servers. Customers who are federated with Azure Active Directory are also eligible. For more information, see Review requirements on devices , later in this topic. When you have the required Azure AD subscription, group-based licensing is the preferred method to assign Enterprise E3 or E5 licenses to users.
A per-user PowerShell scripted method of assigning licenses is available. Organizations can use synchronized AD groups to automatically assign licenses. What will the users experience? How will they upgrade their devices? During the initial setup, on the Who owns this PC? To join a device to Azure AD when the device already has Windows 10 Pro, version installed and set up.
If your device is running Windows 10, version or later, this step is not needed. From Windows 10, version , the device will automatically activate Windows 10 Enterprise using the firmware-embedded activation key. Figure 7a - Windows 10 Pro activation in Settings.
Once the device is joined to your Azure AD subscription, the user will sign in by using his or her Azure AD account, as illustrated in Figure 8. The Windows 10 Enterprise E3 or E5 license associated with the user will enable Windows 10 Enterprise edition capabilities on the device. You can use this information to help you diagnose the licensing and activation process. Active Directory-joined and Azure Active Directory-joined clients are supported. The most common problems that users may experience are as follows:.
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