Micrsoft Evaluation Center offers evaluation version for you to have a free trial to exploring technical stuff easily. But if you test an evaluation version of Windows 10 and decided to upgrade to the full version, you will face a stumbling block. The evaluation version offered is of the Enterprise edition but Microsoft doesn’t support any way to convert the evaluation version to a fully licensed version of Windows 10 Enterprise or Windows 11 Enterprise edition!
Download and Install Win10 LTSC Evaluation Version
- https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/
- There are following four different virtualization software options for you to download:
You can use Rufus to burn download ISO into your USB stick:
Boot your machine using this usb stick and follow regular steps to get this latest Windows 10 LTSC evaluation installed.
Unfortunately, it will be evaluation version and you won’t be able to change the product key to activate it just like you do for other version of Win10. Even you try to change prodction license code, you wont be able to get the result you want.
Upgrade Steps
Here are some steps you can do to change evaulation version to full version:
1. Press Win+R command
Then enter: C:\Windows\System32\spp\tokens\skus
You can use this command to check system version: wmic os get caption
C:\Users\netsec>wmic os get caption
Caption Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC Evaluation
Or you can use dism command: (run it in the administrator mode)
Right click on Terminal icon then select Run as administrator
C:\Windows\system32>dism /online /get-currentedition
Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.19041.844Image Version: 10.0.19044.1288
Current edition is: Current Edition : EnterpriseSEval
The operation completed successfully.
2. Download a special file includes some new Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 SKU files:
- new SKUs of Windows 10 Enterprise here
Again, this file is also able to apply into Win11.
3. unzip then copy all contents to C:\Windows\System32\spp\tokens\skus
You might have existing EnterpriseEval folder. Edit properties and get administrators group full control permission so you can delete this folder.
After that, please copy following three folders into skus folder.
4. After reboot system, open CMD command line window (Run as administrator) , then copy / paste following commands in it to run:
If you are in Terminal window, you might want to type CMD to get into Command Prompt window to run following commands.
There will be some path issue in Terminal window to run those commands.
cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /rilc cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /upk >nul 2>&1 cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ckms >nul 2>&1 cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /cpky >nul 2>&1 cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk M7XTQ-FN8P6-TTKYV-9D4CC-J462D sc config LicenseManager start= auto & net start LicenseManager sc config wuauserv start= auto & net start wuauserv clipup -v -o -altto c:\ echo
Some popular code:
- M7XTQ-FN8P6-TTKYV-9D4CC-J462D is for Win 10 Enterprise LTSC
- W269N-WFGWX-YVC9B-4J6C9-T83GX is for Win 10 Pro / Edu / Home
- W269N-WFGWX-YVC9B-4J6C9-T83GX is for Win 11 pro
Notes: You might get an error to say :
‘error 0xc004e016 on a computer running microsoft windows non-core edition
Using following commands to fix this error from CMD (run as an administrator):
slmgr /upk
slmgr.vbs /cpky
slmgr /ckms
slmgr.vbs /ckms
slmgr /skms localhost
Here is the command output:
5. Restart your computer then you will find out this upgrade process from Evaluation to Full version has been done.
Note: Above process applys to Windows 11 as well.
Results
For Windows 10:
Notes: Updates your Windows system then put your KMS server in to activate it. You will need to go online to find out a public kms server ip to replace this example one, 192.168.2.8.
C:\Windows\system32>wmic os get caption
C:\Windows\system32>slmgr /skms 192.168.2.8
C:\Windows\system32>slmgr /ipk M7XTQ-FN8P6-TTKYV-9D4CC-J462D
C:\Windows\system32>slmgr /ato
C:\Windows\system32>slmgr /xpr
Notes: DISM command might not work properly here.
C:\Windows\system32>dism /online /get-currentedition
Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.19041.844 Image Version: 10.0.19044.2486
Current edition is:
Error: 0x800f0805
DISM failed. No operation was performed.
For more information, review the log file.
The DISM log file can be found at C:\Windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log
C:\Windows\system32>
For Windows 11:
Win11 SKU: Download here
Here is the code for enabling all kinds of Win11 licensing:
cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /rilc
cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /upk >nul 2>&1
cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ckms >nul 2>&1
cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /cpky >nul 2>&1
cscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk NRG8B-VKK3Q-CXVCJ-9G2XF-6Q84J
sc config LicenseManager start= auto & net start LicenseManager
sc config wuauserv start= auto & net start wuauserv
clipup -v -o -altto c:\
echo
C:\Windows\system32>slmgr /ipk W269N-WFGWX-YVC9B-4J6C9-T83GXC:\Windows\system32>slmgr /skms 192.168.2.8C:\Windows\system32>slmgr /atoC:\Windows\system32>slmgr /xpr