I have Windows 10 Education edition and still have not gotten the option to enroll in the extended security updates. My PC does not meet the requirements for Windows 11 so upgrading is not currently an option. All options for enrolling in ESU on Window's website refer to upgrading the consumer editions, but I can't find any information about the Education edition. I have been out of school for a number of years and was provided my windows key by the university when I went there. What are my options? Thanks in advanced.

Hi all,

Has anyone had any luck getting this for the Education edition of Windows 10? I have 22H2, the required updates etc. https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/how_to_force_windows_10_esu/ This solution does not work for Education as far as I can tell.

I purchased this edition when I was at uni years ago.

Any info or advice from those in a similar position would be much appreciated!!

I am so confused on how to get it.

Background:

-slmgr /dlv reports that I'm on Windows 10, Education edition, Retail channel

-ESUEligibility and ESUEligibility reports that I am Ineligible and Non-consumer edition

-I'm able to register the computer that this Windows is installed on to my personal Microsoft account

I haven't received the ESU offer in the Update Windows Settings. I'm guessing I'm not going to get the offer because I'm on a non-consumer edition (per ESUEligibility value).

I'm not able to get support from the IT admin/institution that provided me this education license.

Am I supposed to get the ESU from a volume license provider? But my Windows is listed as being through the retail channel. Moreover, this Windows is connected to my personal Microsoft account and I'm not on a business/enterprise account to get a volume-associated license.

What am I supposed to do?

The notification is still stuck on "coming soon" and can only click on the link that gives you more info. No "Enroll now" button. Does this mean I'm still on a waiting list or something? If this is normal then talk about taking your time to roll it out, Microsoft. I'm two times as stressed now that I've seen that they broke the Windows 11 installation wizard. It's either ESU or die. Also, will an upgrade to Windows 11 still be possible after October 14th?

For those who may not know, EDU customers can get a 1-year MAK license for Extended Security Updates (ESU) at just $1 per device per year. The cost increases in later years, but this option gives schools time to plan a proper migration to a supported version (Windows 11, Windows 10 LTSC, etc.).

In our case, we only need a few licenses for specialized devices, but I figured this info might help others, as the Windows 10 end of life is October 14, 2025 - just 14 days away.

Hi all,

I have a pc that unofficially supports Win 11. Was hoping to get the additional year of ESU on it. This pc is running a retail Windows 10 Education licence.

I note on the Microsoft page for consumer ESU it states that only Home, Professional, Pro Education or Workstation are eligible. (Pro Education is a different SKU to education. Think of Education as being as feature rich as enterprise with a different name and the option of retail licences).

Anyone got any idea if Retail Education will be eligible for ESU or will I have to change the OS on this machine?

Thanks.

I finally got the link to enroll in the ESU program but now it's giving me this error. I am signed into my Microsoft account, I have my settings synced like it required and I checked everything I could have missed but it gave me the error anyway. Is there anything I can do??
My version of Windows is 22H2 and OS build is 19045.6396 if it helps

UPDATE: I GOT IT TO WORK!! So what I did was Services > Windows License Manager Services > Enable (for some reason I had it disabled but it worked after I re-enabled it)

I never received the Windows 10 ESU signup option. I contacted Microsoft, was told to keep waiting as it would roll out "gradually." Well, support ends today and still nothing. Now what? Can I continue to use my laptop with Windows 10 after today? Community forums were unhelpful, just a bunch of automated replies that assumed I already received the ESU offer, or people trying to desperately convince me how amazing Windows 11 is if I just give it a chance yadda yadda. Is there a link to directly install the ESU?

Hello everyone,

Did some searching in r/sysadmin before posting this, so apologies if there is another thread that deals with this specific topic.

We have purchased Windows 10 ESU licenses for our Windows 10 workstations. All of them are running Windows 10 Enterprise - activated via volume licensing using an on-premise KMS server. Testing the activation of these MAK keys using the documentation here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/enable-extended-security-updates

I was issued 5 MAK keys to use, which I'm told have a large number of activations available to them - at least more than we will ever need for our environment. My two test workstations are clean freshly imaged systems running Windows 10 Enterprise build 10.0.19045.6456 which I believe is latest available from Microsoft Update. This also means the workstations have satisfied the requirement of patch KB5046613 being installed. Verified this by trying to manually trying to install that patch and receiving the error that the computers are not eligible to install the MSU.

I've attempted to activate all five of my MAK keys using the following command:

slmgr.vbs /ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx

(where xxxxx would be my MAK keys)

I'm receiving the following errors on all the keys:

Error: 0xC004E016 On a computer running Microsoft Windows non-core edition, run 'slui.exe 0x2a 0xC004E016' to display the error text

I proceed to run the command in that message, and receive the following additional error output:

Code: 0xC004E016

Description: The Software Licensing Service reported that the product key is invalid

I have verified the volume licensing contract that the licenses were purchased through is valid and active. There's one other thread where I found similar errors posted, but it looks like it may have been a conflict between different times of Windows licenses already activated on the workstations in question. Our fleet runs entirely on Windows 10 Enterprise via KMS activation.

Has anyone experienced this issue? Is the only solution here a Microsoft Support ticket to verify the keys are valid and activated? I'm unable to get past this step on two different workstations that by all accounts and research should be able to activate the MAK and receive the updates.

At a minimum, I'm posting here to journal my experiences as I'm assuming I'm not the only one working through this now that October 14 has past...

UPDATE 10/17/25 11:15 AM EDT

So I learned that our organization has multiple volume licensing contracts and "License ID" associated with our volume licensing - we have two that are active. To make sure there weren't any conflicts I removed KMS license activation from the Windows 10 Enterprise devices and instead activated with MAK license for Windows 10 Enterprise on the same active contract number/License ID as our "Windows 10 Supplemental Servicing MAK" that I have been unsuccessful in activating. Unfortunately that did not work, and I received the same errors, so a Microsoft Support Ticket is being opened.

UPDATE 10/2925 3:30 PM EDT

Resolved - we have received our MAK and activated test workstations successfully. See full update in comments.

It's a multi-billion dollar company with large data centers around the world. The process of ESU registration is automated. There's no staff that registers every single user by hand.

But still, they need to roll out the ESU registration process slowly from region to region. Probably to not overwhelm their servers. (And allow users more time to consider Windows 11.)

I have 2 secondary computers that I would like to enroll for ESU rather than upgrading them right away/this year.

In both cases:

• I usually use them with a local account but added my main Microsoft account as administrator on them

• They are up to date

• Both use Win 10 Pro.

• I want the option where I pay ~30 EUR and don't need MS 365.

• I'm in a EU country (I just read that we could get ESU for free in Europe, in some countries? no precise information, but the issue is the same, I have now idea how and don't see any option for it)

• ...

I still don't get the option to enroll for ESU. Windows 10 updates end in 2 days.

Is there a solution to this?

Edit:
So on both computer I now have the enroll option (see in the comments). On onew computer I was able to enroll,

but on the second one I keep getting 'Something went wrong: We can't enroll you in Extended Security Update right now. Close this window try again.'

EDIT: So for this given computer, the reason was that "Find My Device" was OFF. Turned it ON. Enrolled. Turned it OFF.

hi everyone, Windows 10 support is ending very soon and I still don't have the "Enroll now" button in the settings of my computer. I have the text it will be "available soon" but I'm getting a little stressed. I should be eligible for it, I checked multiple times, and I'm also in the EU. My PC has all the newest updated, I hope.

I tried forcing it through the Command Prompt multiple times and even though the commands went through every time, I still don't have the option available.

Does someone have the same problem, or an advice for what could work? Is it possible that the button will appear this close to the date of the support ending? I would just upgrade to Windows 11 if i could, but my computer doesn't meet the requirements and I can't get a new one right now.

I want to call Windows support on Monday about it but I wanted to ask elsewhere too, because I don't have a lot of faith in them, considering everything. So all help will be greatly appreciated.

edit: my device is HP 250 G6 Notebook PC, my Windows version is 22H2, I have Windows Home, and the build number is 19045.6396, and the account I'm logged into is a Microsoft account and has been logged into very recently. It's an administrator profile

is it just me? Is this normal or some kind of bug? support ends tomorrow but i still have the enrollment will be coming soon text under windows settings instead of enroll now. I live in Germany maybe its a region thing?

I meet the enrollment requirements so it should be there right? Can i still enroll after 14th October?

Windows 10 Home 22H2 OS 19045.6332

Finally, Today got enrolled in 'Extended Security Update' program.. Now I can be rest assured for one more year.. :)

Microsoft has announced that its controversial Extended Support Updates (ESU) for Windows 10, starting this October, have been made free exclusively in the European Economic Area. The announcement also heralds the discontinuation of Microsoft's alternative data-sharing measures to keep a device on Windows 10 in the region.