Windows 10 ESU license and November Update

 





What is Windows 10 ESU?

It stands for Extended Security Updates. This license was released by Microsoft after Windows 10 reached the end of support on October 14th, 2025. This solution was introduced to help many companies and individuals who are still using Windows 10 for any reason and want to migrate their work to Windows 11. The license covers 1-3 years. This license is free for home users, but for companies it costs $60 per user for the first year.

 

If you want to get a license, you can buy it from one of Microsoft's partners. And deploy ESU MAK via Intune or any other option.

 

If you deployed the ESU Key and it is installed, but you did not receive the Nov updates, no worries, you are not alone.

I have the issue, and after deploying my license, I did not get the update on Tuesday, November 11th, 2025. I did all the troubleshooting you can imagine to see when the update will be, but I get the message that the version has reached the end of support.





Then I was lucky to stumble upon this article by Microsoft, which admitted they had an issue and they are fixing it by publishing KB5068781 to fix the issue, as you can see in the screenshot below during the update.


https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-10-22H2#an-incorrect--end-of-support--message-might-appear-in-windows-settings

 

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-10-22H2#the-windows-10-extended-security-update--esu--enrollment-wizard-might-fail





Then, after completing the update, the message about ‘End of support’ is gone, and the build number is now 19045.6575.



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