wim, we need to edit the WIM using DISM to enable S Mode and Manufacturing Mode.Įnabling S Mode requires you to apply an Unattend.xml file with the S Mode setting. Microsoft maintains a great step-by-step guide here: Capturing a Windows 10 WIM wim to start, which you can create and capture from a VM and MDT. iso) that we can then automate to use with Autopilot. MDT will let us: create an edited Unattend.xml, customize the deployment of a Windows 10. To that end, we’ll be using MDT for basically our entire walkthrough. iso:Įnabling S Mode requires editing the unattend.xml file of an image. Here’s our walkthrough of enabling S Mode in a 1909 business editions. Generally you should be ‘deploying’ Windows 10 in S Mode by buying S Mode devices from a manufacturer. That can be a good thing – UWP apps or other apps available from the Microsoft Store can be auto updated (using the Store), and are built using more modern APIs (enabling better functionality such as tombstoning in the background to save battery life).

Windows 10 in S Mode is a “feature” that only allows applications from the Microsoft Store. Let’s talk about Windows 10 Enterprise Security features!

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