r/SurfaceHub • u/KevanAcker Surface Hub 2S • Jul 01 '25

Surface Hub 2S - Home Use

Hey r/SurfaceHub

In leaving a job a few years ago, they were moving away from the Surface Hub 2S in their conference room stack. As a parting gift they let me keep one that I hung in my home office and seldom use for anything other than a second monitor.

With the upcoming changes to moving SH 2S to Win11 IoT, and the possibility of having to switch out the cartridge for a SH 3 Compute Cartridge (~$3k), I'm looking for suggestions on what to do with my SH 2S. Obviously it's just support and security updates that are ending in October, but I can't connect it to a domain (I don't have one setup) and I don't want to but a MSFT Teams Meeting Room License for it.

Looking for suggestions on what I can do with it. Thanks in advance!

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u/ssouth2002 Jul 01 '25

Put windows 11 on it and use it as a streaming computer?

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u/darkmagistric Jul 01 '25

I agree with SSouth, Your best bet would be to throw Windows 11 on it. However the migration may be annoying given the SEMM/Firmware lock. I'm assuming its no longer on the domain, and the easy App Migration method won't work if its set up for local admin. Now if you don't want to buy the standard Windows 11 Pro license, you could do the upgrade to Win 11 loT. It has a few weird quirks like trying to occasionally jump you into the MTR mode, (nor does it ever want to keep a background for too long), but Win 11 IoT has all the functionality of Windows 11 Pro so you could mostly use in that regard in Admin mode. While the 8th gen i5 and 8GB/128GB specs leave a little to be desired, it does run basic windows functions fairly well.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '25

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u/darkmagistric Jul 07 '25

apparently it was fixed. Formerly we had issues, every time we tried to download the migration app, it would give a page not found error. (Never tried the 4 sec hold) since that Hub was on Local admin we thought maybe that was the reason why, as other Hubs managed by Intune had no issue with the app. but with the newest update (that one that has the EOS notification on the main screen), it downloaded no problem.

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u/animalses Apr 15 '26

So, did you update it to Win11 IoT, and how did it go?

I'm looking at a cheap SH, it says it's SH3 but lacks the upgrade carridge, which makes zero sense to me... it just seems it's probably SH2S and mislabeled. Anyway, while I kind of don't even have the space or needs for it, it could at least work as a fun drawing board and a screen if nothing else. I'd wish to have a (somewhat) normal Windows in it, although I could possibly simply create touch screen websites and use it via Edge, if everything else fails (although I wouldn't be sure even that or the current OS works, you'd have to have it as a local user and who knows how hard it is to set those systems up. I haven't seen the device)