Symptoms of Inactivation for Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC OS

Question

Good morning,

I work for a company which supports a group of people who perform critical missions and our company provides images for one of the processors on their network.

The images have the Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC OS. The images will be applied to one server on the network for activation. The network they are pairing with has the Windows 2016 Volume License and will not be able to activate our image via the KMS Server because they will need 2019. Mind you, and this is very important, none of these networks have internet access.

While they plan on updating the Volume License, it could take some time because things move very slowly around here. Therefore, I am in need of a list of symptoms they will experience until we can get their Volume License updated to 2019.

Thank you in advance.

S Pinti

Answer 1

@Pinti, Sara E. (Contractor)
Hi,

Do you mean what will happen if these images are not activated?

Here is the list of limitations you will face in this situation:
-A watermark will remain at the lower right-hand corner saying Activate Windows.
-Windows will send out notifications asking you to activate Windows. I am not sure how frequent it will be, but you will notice it every day.
-There will be a ‘Windows isn’t activated, Activate Windows now‘ notification in Settings.
-You will not be able to change the wallpaper, accent colors, themes, lock screen, and so on. Anything related to Personalization will be grayed out or not accessible.
-Some apps and features will stop working
-Although currently, you may still get Updates, Microsoft is likely to change its policy in the future.

Also, OS will be shuts down every hour.

Hope above information can help you.

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