

Today’s object lesson in corporate conservatism: Windows 10 Enterprise Long Term Service Channel (LTSC), a version of Windows as a service that companies have purchased under a 10-year license - up to now.

Reliable security, compatibility and performance are far more important than bells and whistles when your job depends on software and hardware playing nicely together. And the IT field is full of people who still enjoy tinkering with the latest and greatest tech releases.īut when it comes to getting the job done, IT buyers are much, much less interested in novelty. Then IoT activates permanently with HWID.What’s the difference between a gadget geek and an IT pro? A day job in technology.įor sure, many if not most of the professionals keeping companies’ systems up and running were attracted to the field because they love technology. However, simply modify the code for the SKU value in HWID_Activation.cmd: MAS 1.4 will fail for IoT with the following error: The section below were written for MAS 1.4 at the time of making this post and may be skipped: Just search for MAS.Įdit: MAS 1.5 may already support LTSC 2021.

Right-click on Start menu, run "PowerShell (Admin)", type in the following command:įor genuine MSDN subscribers: you activate non-IoT with the KMS server of your institute, or activate IoT with the MAK key provided by your institute.įor home users: as per sub rules, no linking of pirated content, thus I will not provide any link here for activators. You can freely switch between these two at any time by changing the key (see generic keys in the table above). Q: Can I switch between non-IoT and IoT after installation?Ī: Yes. install en-gb non-IoT, then switch to IoT (see below), so that you get IoT in native language "English (United Kingdom)". It is recommended that you do a clean installation in the native language you want, e.g. For exmaple, if you install with an en-us ISO, then install the en-gb language pack, then you could get the pesky "English (United States)" keyboard layout coming back again and again. However, keep in mind that in some cases it will not be the same as installing from an ISO file in the native language. Q: If I want IoT, can I install with the ISO file of the IoT version, which is only available in en-us, then later on install language packs of my choice?Ī: Yes. Only en-us "English (United States)" is available. Q: What's the difference between non-IoT and IoT?Ī: They are essentially the same, except:Īll native languages available, such like en-gb, fr-fr, de-de, etc. In this post, " Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021" will be referred to as " non-IoT", and " Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021" will be referred to as " IoT".
