You cannot activate such a system by using KMS. This is a compliance check for the use of volume media as per the Volume License Agreement. However, you can activate the system by using a multiple activation key MAK. You may not be compliant from a licensing scenario when you use a MAK. Contact your licensing specialist to make sure that you are complaint.
Or, you can use a retail key. The output will resemble the following example:. OEM Activation 2. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. We are going with MAK due to the ease of activation. I just got off the phone with our software provider and he explained about the KMS activation and how every system imaged has to contact the designated KMS Key Management System server to activate.
The KMS server itself has to contact Microsoft every days to re-activate itself as was mentioned above. Then after I create the Master Image file and image the next - computers of the same model, each one will ask to activate Vista over the Internet when you boot into Windows. This sounds the best for our environment, since from what I understand you only have to activate it once and then you are good.
I asked about additional licenses and was told that I just have to call up Microsoft and request more MAK keys. You really think that is expensive? How much did you pay for the hardware? We turned up a KMS server two years ago and it's been a no brainer. We don't have to be concerned about tracking and getting a new MAK when we exceed one key's capacity. As I understand it once you've used an activation you don't get it back if that same system is reimaged. So any domain joined system on our "campus" subets will get an activation.
That includes systems coming in via VPN access. The MAK is reserved for those sytems that will be off network for extended periods of time or are not domained joined for justifiable reasons. Obviously longer refresh cycles drive the license fee even higher. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting. Receive new post notifications. Will you deploy Windows 11 to end users in your organization in ?
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Toggle navigation. Author Recent Posts. Michael Pietroforte. Michael Pietroforte is the founder and editor in chief of 4sysops. Contoso has expanded into two domains, east. Network traffic can pass privately between the two networks through a firewalled wide area network WAN link. This link has limited bandwidth, so resources including DNS are replicated on both sides of the WAN link to reduce traffic when possible.
Contoso uses image-based deployment. Its client systems are standardized on Windows Vista, but the Windows Vista systems are being replaced by Windows 7 clients. Users regularly travel geographically, and their network connection changes from one domain to the other. Two KMS hosts are configured in east. The IT administrator accomplishes this by making the following configuration changes see Table 5 :. DHCP servers are configured to add east.
Configure east. Configure west. Then, the administrator confirms that the Windows Firewall exceptions are set to allow KMS client traffic and configures client computers, as Table 6 describes. The following sections describe scenarios for MAK activation. This section involves network and workgroup environments that are typical within large enterprises.
The Secure Zone represents higher-security Core Network computers that have addition firewall protection. The Isolated Lab environment is a workgroup that is physically separate from the Core Network, and its computers do not have Internet access. The network security policy states that no information that could identify a specific computer or user may be transferred out of the Isolated Lab. This count is a snapshot in time, not a real-time count.
VAMT version 3. The VAMT is installed on a central computer with network access to all client computers. The following instructions describe how to perform independent activation:. Ensure that the WMI firewall exception has been enabled for all target computers. Enter a Computer Group name such as Core Network Group to identify the group of computers you are activating. Click the drop-down list to select a search option. If you are searching by individual computer name or IP address, enter that information in the text box below the drop-down list.
If you are searching a domain or a workgroup, select the domain or workgroup from the additional drop-down list displayed for those options. Use the Filter by computer name field to search for a specific computer within the domain or workgroup.
For the VAMT to perform an action on a computer, it must have current license status data for that computer. Collect status from individual computers by directly selecting one or more computers in the computer list view pane. Right-click the group or the desired computers, and then click Refresh Computer Status.
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