Windows 10: Processing (X) hours
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@anonymous said:
@thecreativeone91 said
You have to do the in place upgrade path first for Microsoft to activate your computer then you can do clean installs (even on other hard drives) and it will automatically activate.
Correct, but you can do a in place upgrade from the ISO
Yes, but the ISO installer won't register it. It's needs the preinstall direct download app to run first for the process to work properly.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Yes, but the ISO installer won't register it. It's needs the preinstall direct download app to run first for the process to work properly.
Not true! Did you read the link?
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As long as you do a upgrade, your fine.
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@anonymous said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Yes, but the ISO installer won't register it. It's needs the preinstall direct download app to run first for the process to work properly.
Not true! Did you read the link?
Don't care what the link says. We've tested it throughly in house and have had direct communication with Microsoft throughout the process.
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@anonymous said:
As long as you do a upgrade, your fine.
Nope, we have done an in place upgrade from the ISO on many computers. It simply doesn't work that way. It wants a key once upgraded for activation. Microsoft confirms its not designed to be run that way the first time.
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Are you booting from the ISO? If so. That's the problem. Just burn the ISO to a disk, and run the setup from inside windows.
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@anonymous said:
Are you booting from the ISO? If so. That's the problem. Just burn the ISO to a disk, and run the setup from inside windows.
No we aren't booting from the ISO. Again we've been in direct contact with MS throughout our testing to make sure our upgrade of 20,000+ computers goes well.
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Are you running the media creation tool on the same computer you are upgrading? If so that's the same tool that does the in place upgrade and it will work.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@anonymous said:
Are you booting from the ISO? If so. That's the problem. Just burn the ISO to a disk, and run the setup from inside windows.
No we aren't booting from the ISO. Again we've been in direct contact with MS throughout our testing to make sure our upgrade of 20,000+ computers goes well.
Twenty - Thousand?! Yike. yea,.. I'd say you want to make sure it goes well.
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@g.jacobse said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@anonymous said:
Are you booting from the ISO? If so. That's the problem. Just burn the ISO to a disk, and run the setup from inside windows.
No we aren't booting from the ISO. Again we've been in direct contact with MS throughout our testing to make sure our upgrade of 20,000+ computers goes well.
Twenty - Thousand?! Yike. yea,.. I'd say you want to make sure it goes well.
We have a lot more than that. I don't know the whole total. We have so many different business units, and some of them we just recently bought so they won't be on our AD and network for a few years for legal reasons (to make sure we run them separate for a few years in-case they find out something they didn't know during the purchase.) The buyout they did before this they were very glad they did it as they end up having to clean house both the IT staff and equipment they had been using torrented version of everything.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Nope, we have done an in place upgrade from the ISO on many computers. It simply doesn't work that way. It wants a key once upgraded for activation. Microsoft confirms its not designed to be run that way the first time.
You can always get around a key by interrupting an install or upgrade and running sysprep. This obviously would not scale out though.
While the reason for this article no longer applies as MS eventually updated the normal process to handle a user folder in an alternate location, the initial Insider process did not handle it. The key step to get around it was to interrupt the default flow and step into sysprep. A side benefit of hitting sysprep if the ability to subsequently skip a key being required during the process
http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1964-users-folder-move-location-windows-10-a.html -
@thecreativeone91 said:
@anonymous said:
As long as you do a upgrade, your fine.
Nope, we have done an in place upgrade from the ISO on many computers. It simply doesn't work that way. It wants a key once upgraded for activation. Microsoft confirms its not designed to be run that way the first time.
I upgraded a computer this weekend from the ISO, and it activated with no CD key. Weird you're having this problem. I hope you'll share the solution.
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@Dashrender said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@anonymous said:
As long as you do a upgrade, your fine.
Nope, we have done an in place upgrade from the ISO on many computers. It simply doesn't work that way. It wants a key once upgraded for activation. Microsoft confirms its not designed to be run that way the first time.
I upgraded a computer this weekend from the ISO, and it activated with no CD key. Weird you're having this problem. I hope you'll share the solution.
Again, did you download the ISO on the same computer you installed it?
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I'm told Microsoft sent our technicians a new installer today. They moved the activation/registration process from what they called the "media creation tool" to the actually installer. Apparently there was a lot of complaints, and any new download will include this change.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@Dashrender said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@anonymous said:
As long as you do a upgrade, your fine.
Nope, we have done an in place upgrade from the ISO on many computers. It simply doesn't work that way. It wants a key once upgraded for activation. Microsoft confirms its not designed to be run that way the first time.
I upgraded a computer this weekend from the ISO, and it activated with no CD key. Weird you're having this problem. I hope you'll share the solution.
Again, did you download the ISO on the same computer you installed it?
No. I'm going to read your posts again I guess I missed something.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@anonymous said:
@thecreativeone91 said
You have to do the in place upgrade path first for Microsoft to activate your computer then you can do clean installs (even on other hard drives) and it will automatically activate.
Correct, but you can do a in place upgrade from the ISO
Yes, but the ISO installer won't register it. It's needs the preinstall direct download app to run first for the process to work properly.
OH - Uh, this was not the case for me. I downloaded the ISO on my already upgraded Windows 10 laptop, created a bootable USB stick from their utility, then plugged that stick into the WinBook, found setup.exe on the stick and did the upgrade.
The Preinstall Direct Download app was never downloaded or installed on the WinBook.
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I downloaded the ISO files on Monday evening.
Tuesday evening I stuck the Windows 10 Home disc in a mahine wit a new HDD and installed.
I was able to skip the product key entry everytime it popped up and complete the install all the way into Windows.
The system is not activated, but is fully functional otherwise.
Just did it as a test because the HDD in the machine died and I happened to be stuck in one place for ling enough to do it.
