Recently i had a client which had M365 licensing, but was a little on the smaller side, so did not have an EA or earlier Windows 10 enterprise licensing through the VLSC.

In this situation, MS would have you install the Pro version of Windows 10 – and let you upgrade to enterprise via M365 subscription activation – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/windows-10-subscription-activation 

When deploying via SCCM – it seems counter-intuitive to deploy a version of the OS you don’t want to actually use… and have an additional step where something can go wrong (and considering MS support has become completely un-usable – trying to avoid potential for having to engage them is wise)

Please note that the following procedure does require you to have a valid Windows 10 enterprise license key

In order to just deploy enterprise in the first place:

• Go to https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10
• Download the media creation tool
• Run the media creation tool with the command line “MediaCreationTool21H2.exe /Eula Accept /Retail /MediaArch x64 /MediaLangCode en-US /MediaEdition Enterprise”
• Enter an enterprise license key when prompted
• Select the options to create an ISO
• Play the waiting game
• Extract the esd to a wim
  • Create a directory (e.g. D:\ESD)
  • Mount the iso
  • Copy the install.esd from the mounted ISO to D:\ESD
  • From a command prompt run “dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:install.esd” and take note of the image index for your desired version. Enterprise is index “3”, education is index “1” in 21H2 for example
  • run “dism /export-image /SourceImageFile:install.esd /SourceIndex:3 /DestinationImageFile:install.wim /Compress:max /CheckIntegrity”
    • Ensure the SourceIndex value matches with the index number of your desired version
  • Play the waiting game again
• You now have a wim you can use to image from SCCM