
Upgrade by purchasing a license from the Microsoft Store If you are upgrading only a few devices, you may want to enter a product key for the upgraded edition manually.įrom either the Start menu or the Start screen, type 'Activation' and click on the Activation shortcut.
For example, the following command will upgrade to Windows 10 Enterprise.Ĭscript.exe c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk NPPR9-FWDCX-D2C8J-H872K-2YT43 Upgrade by manually entering a product key You can also upgrade using slmgr.vbs and a KMS client setup key. You can run the changepk.exe command-line tool to upgrade devices to a supported edition of Windows 10:
Create a provisioning package for Windows 10. To create a provisioning package for upgrading desktop editions of Windows 10, go to Runtime settings > EditionUpgrade > UpgradeEditionWithProductKey in the Available customizations panel in Windows ICD and enter the product key for the upgraded edition.įor more info about Windows Configuration Designer, see these topics:. To get started, install Windows Configuration Designer from the Microsoft Store. Use Windows Configuration Designer to create a provisioning package to upgrade a desktop edition. To upgrade desktop editions of Windows 10 using MDM, you'll need to enter the product key for the upgraded edition in the UpgradeEditionWithProductKey policy setting of the WindowsLicensing CSP. Upgrade using mobile device management (MDM) Devices with N or KN SKUs installed can be upgraded to corresponding N or KN SKUs using the same methods.
These editions have had media-related functionality removed.
Each desktop edition in the table also has an N and KN SKU. For information about upgrade paths in Windows 10 in S mode (for Pro or Education), check out Windows 10 Pro/Enterprise in S mode.