Domain Joined Windows 7/8.1 Pro Upgrades to Windows 10?

For small businesses with Windows 7 or 8.1 Pro systems that are domain joined, but not volume licensed as Enterprise, will these systems be eligible for the free upgrade to Windows 10 Pro?

If so, what is the process going to be for these businesses to trigger the install and get their key?

If not, why on earth not? Seems bonkers to offer free upgrade to everyone not in a business AND Enterprise users as part of Software Assurance but NOT small businesses who are battling cost justifications.

I've not seen any indications or footnotes that these systems are excluded though, so I'm assuming that it's not an auto-offer to prevent IT departments from freaking out, lol... and also that a tool set will be available for them to perform these deployments.

I would appreciate any guidance that is possible at this time.

 

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Has this been backed by Microsoft?  If it has can you provide proof for it. Being a business with almost 1500 machines on a domain we would like to utilize the free upgrade process. 

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I have found in my experience that if a domained PC is trying to upgrade to windows 10 we had to use the check online for Microsoft updates or use the media creation tool provided by Microsoft.  

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I have tried since the first release of Windows 10 back in July and have been unable upgrade any of our Computers or Surfaces without removing them from the domain. Using a local or domain admin account. The problem with this is it creates a new domain user profile for our employees after the upgrade. It's painful, but been copying everything to the new profile because that's the only thing that is working.

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agree with JoshWI_2016.

This is the only way that works - for the moment.

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For reference for others because I didn't see the error message posted in this thread. It is the same generic one you get if you try as a normal user or have hidden a $BT_Windows folder already on the C drive. 

"Setup couldn't start properly. Please reboot your PC and try running Windows 10 Setup again."

It took me longer than it should have last fall to finally try removing the device from the domain because every where said it should work when signed in as a local admin or a domain admin account.

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You can install as domain or local admin, but you cannot activate when doing this on a domain member.

Error is something like 'cannot reach activation server - try again later'.

Once again: you must leave domain *before* upgrading. It will not help if you do this after upgrade has went through.

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Well I can't even get that far haha.

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...remove Microsoft Security Essentials from the Windows7 PC before the upgrade to Windows10 in a domain too.

I have had WAY less problems removing it first!

Secondly-

The Windows7 to Windows10 upgrade breaks RDP on a Server 2008 system. And you have to manually go to the machine to re-enable RDP in Windows 10.

On server 2008 R2 you can do it from group policy.

(If anyone knows a fix for the RDP on server 2008 please advise)

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Still looking for seamless and semi-automated way to deploy win 10 to domain joined computers running eligible Oem dell Windows 7 license.    Trying wsus without success 
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I don't know if the initial upgrade on domain joined pc's was successfully addressed, but the gwx.exe will install Win 10 Pro on domain joined computers through Windows Updates.

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