I’m happy to announce that Windows 10, version is now available for download from Visual Studio Subscriptions (formerly MSDN Subscriptions) and the Software Download Center (via Update Assistant or the Media Creation Tool)—as well as through Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and Windows Update for Business. This new feature update will begin rolling out globally via Windows Update in the coming weeks to ensure the best possible update experience for our customers. For more details on our rollout plans and the improvements we’ve made to the update experience, please see John Cable’s blog post.

For commercial customers, today’s October 2, release of Windows 10, version marks the start of the servicing timeline for the Semi-Annual Channel (“Targeted”) phase. If you’re using Windows Update for Business and have configured updates for Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted) deferral, your updates will be based from this date. If you do not use Windows Update for Business, the Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted) designation has no impact on you. 

We recommend that you begin rolling out Windows 10, version today, in phases across your organization, to validate that your apps, devices, and infrastructure work well with this new release before broad deployment. Additionally, if you aren’t yet using Windows Analytics to monitor your rollout of this feature update, we encourage you to do so.

To support this release, we have updated the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) for Windows 10 and published a draft of the Security baseline for Windows 10, version We are also updating the Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation, a free day evaluation designed to help IT pros test Windows 10 Enterprise in their environments.

When will Windows 10, version be available on the Volume Licensing Service Center? 

Windows 10, version will be rolling out globally to Volume License customers via the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) in the coming weeks.

When will Windows 10, version be available to Microsoft partners? 

Windows 10 Enterprise, version will be available to those with Microsoft Action Pack Subscriptions (MAPS) via the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) on October 5th. All other editions for MAPS will be available on October 22nd.

What’s new and what’s changed for IT pros?

Windows 10, version is the sixth feature update for Windows You’ll notice that much of what has changed since the last update is the result of our effort to help you holistically and more easily manage your devices and deployments with Microsoft

Security

• Windows Defender ATP: General
  • Threat Analytics - A set of interactive reports on significant and emerging attack campaigns that fuses organizational risk analytics with threat intelligence.
  • Custom detections with Advanced hunting – Write your own custom queries with advanced hunting, save them and now we turn them into your own custom alerts.
  • Auto-resolve remediated alerts – Alerts can now be automatically resolved when the automated investigation fully remediated the threat.
  • Microsoft Threat Protection – Integrates with Azure Advanced Threat Protection, Azure Information Protection, Office Threat Intelligence, Microsoft Cloud App Security, Microsoft Intune, and Skype for Business to offer a fully integrated, end-to-end solution that helps secure your organization across its entire attack surface, securing identities, endpoints, cloud apps, and infrastructure.
  • Supply Microsoft Secure Score with information about the status of your antivirus, OS security updates, firewall, and other controls so you can better understand your all-up security position.
  • Support for managed security service providers (MSSP) to deliver managed detection and response (MDR) services on top of Windows Defender ATP.
  • Support for Windows Server - We're upgrading our server protection stack by adding support for Windows Server