Sky-Knight
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I just discovered this morning that the reason 1809 won't install on some Win7/Win8 units coming in for upgrade, is due to the included Intel Microcode updates that were released back last September.
So, for these systems, the easy path forward is to upgrade them to 1803, and then to 1809.
If you need 1803 ISO images, you can still get them from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
To access the 1803 ISOs from that page, use a plugin to change your browser's agent string to Safari for an iPad, after a refresh you'll see the drop downs you need to get the files you want.
I'm probably going to do that going forward anyway, because it saves me using that stupid media creation tool.
If you're on a station that doesn't have the agent string adjustment, you can do it with edge. Put about:flags in the address box, and tick the show view source and inspect element in the context menu option at the top. Then visit the link, right click somewhere on the page, then pick select element. From there, a new developer window will appear, there's an emulation option at the top, click that and then change the value in the user agent string drop down.
Of course once 1903 lands, 1803 won't be online for download anymore. So if you want these images you'll need to get them soon.
A fresh install bypasses all of this of course, but if you ever need to do an upgrade for whatever purpose... here you go.
So, for these systems, the easy path forward is to upgrade them to 1803, and then to 1809.
If you need 1803 ISO images, you can still get them from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
To access the 1803 ISOs from that page, use a plugin to change your browser's agent string to Safari for an iPad, after a refresh you'll see the drop downs you need to get the files you want.
I'm probably going to do that going forward anyway, because it saves me using that stupid media creation tool.
If you're on a station that doesn't have the agent string adjustment, you can do it with edge. Put about:flags in the address box, and tick the show view source and inspect element in the context menu option at the top. Then visit the link, right click somewhere on the page, then pick select element. From there, a new developer window will appear, there's an emulation option at the top, click that and then change the value in the user agent string drop down.
Of course once 1903 lands, 1803 won't be online for download anymore. So if you want these images you'll need to get them soon.
A fresh install bypasses all of this of course, but if you ever need to do an upgrade for whatever purpose... here you go.
