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KMS stands for Key Management Services by Microsoft. KMS allows volume license customers of Microsoft Products to establish a server to hand out software product keys, thus eliminating the need to hand enter product activation keys each time a new operating system is installed.

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KMS / Office 2010... please point to documentation

Trying to find out how to "modify" KMS to also accept the Office 2010 KMS key. Can anyone point me to some document about this? Basically - do I have to install an update to KMS? I wand my KMS server to authenticate both, Windows (It currently has a…
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Can Windows Server be a KMS client to AWS, but also a host for Office clients?

I want to use a micro Windows Server instance on Amazon as a KMS host for Microsoft Office. The Windows Server instance is already set up as a KMS client getting its keys from Amazon for WS 2012. Is it possible to still have it get its activation…
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How to activate Windows Server 2016 using MAK key and no local KMS?

We have a very small virtual environment with only two Server 2012 VMs. We just purchased a license (local government entity) for Windows Server 2016 in order to add another VM to our stack. I'm having trouble activating the new VM. We are not…
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Active Directory Activation - Restricting by OU

I'd like to set up Active Directory based activation on our domain. In our environment we have a need to use MAK keys on some machines that may not see the AD server for a year or more. Thus, we'd like to restrict the AD activation to certain…
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How to configure active directory activation from powershell/commandline?

Although it's a simple matter to configure Active Directory activation on Windows Server 2016 once the VA role is installed using the GUI, I need a way to configure this from the command line or preferably from powershell, however, I can't seem to…
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VAMT Indicates two revision levels are incompatible

I'm trying to add/run Office 2016 to the KMS server. The KMS server is currently Server 2016 std. Running the package for this installs and then brings up VAT. I try entering the KMS key and try activating it but I get the following error. indicates…
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KMS Host has more than the minimum count, but client machines are still not activating

So pretty as the question states, here is some more info: What I have done: 1) I have setup 36 machines (I have more, but just done one lab for now) to point to the KMS Host 2) I have rearmed the host and again setup the 36 machines 3) The KMS Host…
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VAMT doesn't show clients waiting to activate until threshold reached?

I'm trying to get the KMS on our network up past the 25+ activation threshold so that users don't freak out until we're finished deploying. To that end, I'm setting up VMs on a vmware box. When I type cscript slmgr.exe /ato on a 'new' vmware…
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Need to update a KMS key on licensing server

We are a college campus with a bunch (100s) of computers scattered around between labs and staff use. We've recently started getting notifications on some desktops that Windows is not activated, and checking our Volume License it looks like these…
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MS's DNS configuration for Key Management Services

I've gotten saddled with setting up MS's Key Management Services for our systems. (I missed the meeting...) The KMS server part seems to have installed on the KMS server box ok and appears to have activated, but none of the clients are able to…
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What is the KMS road warrior user experience?

We provide Office and Exchange and Sharepoint services to our users who are all "permanent road warriors" - by which I mean they don't belong to any domain, they don't even dial in to a VPN, they act as if they were using hosted services. We are…
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KMS Activation count w7 ent

On my KMS host (Windows Server 2008 R2), when i do a slmgr.vbs /dli, I dont see any Current Count fied, i only see this: Name: Windows Server(R), Server Standard edition Description: Windows Operating System - Windows Server(R), VOLUME_KMSCLIENT…
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Is it possible to setup a Windows 2008 R2 KMS server for windows 7 Licensing only?

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? The question is in the Title, I had the impression that you needed a Windows 2008 R2 KMS key to setup the KMS host, even if you wanted to activate Windows 7 licenses…
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How does KMS (Windows Server 2008 R2) differentiate clients?

I have recently installed a KMS Server in our domain and deployed 75 new Windows 7 machines using an image I made using Acronis True Image. There are 2 variations of this image rolled out currently. When I go to activate the machines it returns that…
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Can I setup a new W2019 domain on a fresh Server 2019 using KMS for licensing if the KMS isn't available yet?

I'm tasked with setting up a Windows 2019 AD environment (new domain) from scratch. Normally we obtain our server licenses/activation from the company KMS system and we need to do that in this case as well. Normally I would just install the Windows…
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