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Sysprep rearm set to 1 and shouldn't have been. Any workarounds for automatic activation prior to the 30 day period?

I work for a fairly large school. We are deploying 850 tablet PCs to students starting tomorrow (Windows 7 Enterprise with a MAK). We have imaged all of these machines with our standard student image tailored specifically for these machines. When I…
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OEM to Virtual Machine for Diaster Recovery / Business Continuity

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We are trying to deploy a Business Continuity Appliance (Zenith BDR) for a customer and one of the features is the ability to bring up the failed server in a virtual machine…
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Is it possible to deactivate Windows Server 2008 R2?

Is it possible to deactivate Windows Server 2008 R2 or Server 2008 for that matter and take back the key so to speak?
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Windows activation system

I have a discussion with my friend about windows activation. Statement 1 Windows activation is always same on the same hardware, meaning you can reactivate windows license unlimited number of times on the same computer Statement 2 Windows license…
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How do you make Windows 7 & Windows Server2008 VMs not want to re-validate?

How do you make Windows7 and Windows Server VMS not want to be re-activated? I have a computer lab full of machines that start up a Windows XP, Windows 7, or Windows Server2008 VM for each student, depending on what they select (Yes I have enough…
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Windows 7 "Not genuine" after imaging Z200 computers

We created images from Windows 7, loaded on a HP Z200 workstation. We have added all our software we need on this image and then, sysprep'ed it. So now, when I push the image thru Zenworks on my 5 other Z200, I get the error message that my copy is…
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Changing the VM memory size and Windows Activation

How often am I allowed to change the memory size for a Windows 7 VM (guest) before it requires reactivation? Other than using Snapshots - is it possible to make Windows 7 aware that it's running inside a VM and ignore changes to the memory size for…
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Creating Answer File For Windows 7 Deployment

We use Dell Computers here and we are wanting to create a standard Desktop Image for Deployment. We only have the OEM copy of Windows 7 Professional that ships with each system. I understand about using the AIK to create the answer file but my…
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Activation Specification batching MDB processing

I have an MQ topic with messages that expire after 2 hours. There are thousands of messages on the topic at a given time. I am using an MDB and an Activation Specification in Websphere to process the messages. The activation spec has multiple…
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Unable to install Windows Server 2022 Host Key on 2012R2 KMS Service

I have tried installing "Windows Srv 2022 DataCtr/Std KMS host key" on Windows Server 2012R2 KMS server, but apparently it is failing: The following error has occurred. Please resolve the error and try again. Description: The Software Licensing…
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Activation of Gmail for secondary domain fails though MX records are added in Google Cloud Platform

Gmail for the main domain is activated I added a secondary domain. In https://admin.google.com/ the status is: varified + Gmail activation failed. When I start activation on the last step I see that MX records are not found: Your MX records didn't…
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Activate Windows 10 when OEM key is missing

We are offboarding a hundred plus Dell Latitude E7470 and 7480 model laptops by reimaging them with base Windows 10 Pro, and about a quarter of them fail to activate Windows 10 Pro due to not having a valid digital license. I have found that…
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0x800f0831 Activating Windows Server 2016 from trial to standard

for some reason i cannot activate windows server 2016 from evalution to standard with the standard activation through settings it post error that this version cannot be upgraded. With powershell script im getting error 0x800F083. I Also i cannot…
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Activating Windows 7 In A Secure Environment

My company has a secure (air gapped) internal network in a secure portion of our facility. The machines in this area process data that is not meant to be exposed to the outside world so there is no internet connectivity in this environment. I am…
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Does a client needs constant access to KMS activation server?

If we once activate a Windows Server to a KMS server, do we later need connection to that KMS server? Or is it a completely one-time occasion? Or at later, when updates come, again connection to KMS server needed?
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