Windows Home Premium Oa
Lillia Iniguez
Its completely silly but thats the way it is. For home you cant use an office 365 account as the sign in. You need to create a basic account and only use the 365 to login use and/or install apps, etc.
Have never done this but think it would work happy (have never played with home versions or not since win 7 home on new notebook years ago)
would be interested to know if it does need pro to use office365.
Upgrade the computer to Windows 10 Pro, then remove the Microsoft account from it, else all appliactions are binded to it, a pain in the neck to have multiple users, or even a simple user that is not the person who registered the device using a MIcrosoft account. Windows Home cannot be added to a domain.
MS has 2 different types of accounts, business and home (note these are account types named by MS, they do not have any bearing on whether the account itself is used for Business or Home). They make it super difficult to find out if a given account is business or home. However, some of their services (such as a Office 365 business subscription) can only work with an account of type business, while Windows 10 Home can only work with an account of type Home.In this case, it looks like you are using a business account to sign into Windows 10 Home, which is not allowed. You need to create a new MS account of type Home to sign into Windows 10.
You can go to account.microsoft.com, and see if you can find enough clues after signing in as to whether the signed in account is of type business or home. I wish (1) MS had not created this mess, (2) Named the different accounts types something other than business and home (3) Made it easier to find out what the type of a given account is.
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My brand new XPS-15 arrives today - obtained at short notice with Windows 10 Home edition installed. I only use Windows 10 Pro edition. What is the most straightforward way for me to upgrade to the Pro edition - ideally retaining a Dell installation image (with all the Dell add-ins, drivers etc). I do not intend activating the Home version.
I'm hoping that the current installation already has the pro features present (but locked) and can only be 'unlocked' by a Pro License Key. That would be great - is that way forward feasible. Please comment on whether a Dell(OEM) license key would be required or a Microsoft Sourced one.
To upgrade from Windows 10 Home if you have a Windows 10 product key:
Select the Start button, then select Settings > Update & security > Activation.
Select Change product key, and then enter the 25-character Windows 10 Pro product key.
Select Next to start the upgrade to Windows 10 Pro
@EddieZe Wow that ! Sorry to hear that... Does not look good for me then, that's exactly what I need to do. But "Tech specialist" (or something like that) here told me that it should work no problem.
Clearly there is a problem here. As others have reported it is NOT as easy as entering a Pro License Key. That fails for me as it has failed for others. Dell should have a documented path from home to pro that works and document that on dell.com. OR they should tell us why an upgrade won't work. I ended up in the Windows 10 Enterprise state after a failed update after entering the lic key. Microsoft said only a clean install using a Windows 10 Pro image off a USB bootable drive would work. It didn't as when you boot from the USB drive it cannot see they main drive for some (possible secure boot related) reason.
Here is what worked for me:
After you try to activate from Win 10 Home to Pro and get the error message, try to install windows updates and than restart your PC, than come back to This COmputer, go to change product key and insert your new win 10 pro product key. The activation was successful for me after this. Hope this helps someone - btw, I have Dell G5 - 5500, brand new with win 10 home.
Have a nice day guys.
Step 8 : Install temporarily a generic license key that allows to upgrade to Pro. This will trigger the upgrade, then reboot the computer several times. This generic key but cannot be activated, so you'll need your own Pro license key to setup immediately after the upgrade. Copy and paste the following instructions in the command line prompt and type enter :
Windows Home Server (code-named Quattro[4]) is a home server operating system from Microsoft. It was announced on 7 January 2007 at the Consumer Electronics Show by Bill Gates,[5] released to manufacturing on 16 July 2007[6] and officially released on 4 November 2007.[7]
Windows Home Server 2011, the next version of this operating system, was released on 6 April 2011.[9] Microsoft confirmed Windows Home Server 2011 to be last release in the Windows Home Server product line.[10]
The configuration interface was designed to be user-friendly enough that it could be set up without prior knowledge of server administration. The configuration interface, called the Home Server Console, was delivered as a Remote Desktop Protocol application to remote PCs while the application ran on the server itself, the GUI was rendered on the remote system. The Home Server Console client application could be accessed from any Windows PC. The server itself required no video card or peripherals; it was designed to require only an Ethernet card and at least one Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 computer.
With Drive Extender, users could add larger capacity hard disk drives and then could offline lesser capacity drives to upgrade capacity online. For example, if the user was reaching capacity of the share with five terabytes of the six-terabyte capacity used with six one-terabyte drives then the user could offline one of the one-terabyte drives and physically replace it with a two-terabyte drive. The WHS automatically equalizes the redistribution of used space across all available drives on a regular basis. The offline process would compress the used data across the minimum amount of drives allowing for the removal of one of the lesser capacity drives. Once replaced with a drive of higher capacity the system will automatically redistribute used capacity among the pool to ensure space capacity on each drive.
Users (specifically those who configure a family's home server) dealt with storage at two levels: Shared Folders and Disks. The only concepts relevant regarding disks was whether they had been "added" to the home server's storage pool or not and whether the disk appeared healthy to the system or not. This was in contrast with Windows' Logical Disk Manager which requires a greater degree of technical understanding in order to correctly configure a RAID array.
If duplication was on for a Shared Folder (which was the default on multi-disk Home Server systems and not applicable to single disk systems) then the files in that Shared Folder were duplicated and the effective storage capacity was halved. However, in situations where a user may not have wanted data duplicated (e.g. TV shows that had been archived to a Windows Home Server from a system running Windows Media Center), Drive Extender provided the capability to not duplicate such files if the server was short on capacity or manually mark a complete content store as not for duplication.[22]
A known limitation of Drive Extender was that it in some cases changed timestamp of directories and files when data was moved around between disks. According to Microsoft this was expected behavior. This caused unexpected behavior when using clients that sort media based on date. Examples are XBMC, MediaPortal, and Squeezebox Server. The aforementioned programs worked fine with WHS; however, files may have appeared out of order due to this caveat.
On 23 November 2010, Microsoft announced that Drive Extender would be removed from Windows Home Server 2011.[2] This led to public outcry in the announcement's comments section. Criticism of Drive Extender's removal mainly related to it being seen as a core feature of Windows Home Server and a key reason for adoption.[23] As a replacement for Drive Extender, Microsoft stated that OEMs would use RAID on their Windows Home Server products.
Windows Home Server Computer Backup automatically backs up all of the computers in a home to the server using an image-based system that ensures point-in-time-based restoration of either entire PCs or specific files and folders.[24] Complete bare-metal restores are initiated through a restore bootable CD, file based restores are initiated through the WHS client software which allows the users to open a backup and "drag and drop" files from it. This technology uses Volume Shadow Services (VSS) technology on the client computer to take an image based backup of a running computer. Because the backup operates on data at the cluster level, single instancing can be performed to minimize the amount of data that travels over the network and that will ultimately be stored on the home server. This single instancing gives the server the ability to store only one instance of data, no matter if the data originated from another computer, another file, or even data within the same file.
Computer backup images are not duplicated on the server, so if a server hard drive fails, backups could be lost. The "Server Backup" feature added in Power Pack 1 does not include duplication of backup images.
The system also offers an SSL secured web browser based interface over the Internet to the shared file stores.[25] The release version offers access to the web interface via a free Windows Live-provided URL, which uses Dynamic DNS. The web interface also allows the uploading to and downloading of files from the content stores.[20] However, there is a limit of 2 GB for a single batch of upload.[19]
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