I have read all this, and it seems any thing but straight forward to me.
It looks like we are going to have to invest a lot more money in
managing licenses.
I could also find nothing about what happens if we need to re-install
Windows. It appears we need to re-activate, and it appears as its a new
sid it will use a second license... Any one any pointers on this?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laura A.
Robinson
Sent: 05 December 2006 00:57
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS
Actually, it is clearly documented, along with a lot more
information on KMS, MAK and Vista Volume Activation (btw, Volume
Licensing doesn't exist in Vista; VL and VA are not the same things).
You probably don't want to get me started on a big long explanation of
how volume activation works, so I'll just point you to this site:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/plan/volact.mspx
:-)
I highly recommend both the FAQ and the step-by-step guide. The
latter provides information on how to change from KMS to MAK and vice
versa (there are several ways), as well as documentation of defaults,
configuration options, etc.
Laura
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Vander Kooi
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 2:44 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS
You need to go to Control Panel > System then at the
bottom select Change Product Key. This will allow you to enter your VL
key which will result in Vista activating via the web. Definitely not
well documented unfortunately.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Cline
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 11:45 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS
I was testing out the RTM of Vista Enterprise last night
and noticed I didn't have to enter a key at any point during the
install. When Windows tried to activate, it told me there was a DNS
error, so I suspected it looks for a local activation server by default.
Sure enough, in the DNS cache was a lookup for a nonexistent
_vlmcs._tcp.domain.com. Upon further research, it appears Microsoft has
not released KMS yet, and I couldn't find any option to activate
directly with Microsoft. For the moment, is telephone activation the
only option?
Brian Cline, Applications Developer
Department of Information Technology
G&P Trucking Company, Inc.
803.936.8595 Direct Line
800.922.1147 Toll-Free (x8595)
803.739.1176 Fax
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