If it's so well baked then how do you support multiple remote offices with slow VPN links, or none at all? How do you support field users without a VPN client, or using an SSL based VPN? Making us use two different images (one for each key type) isn't a solution since it doubles our support work and clients may move from one model to the other. There are plenty of situations where it just doesn't work well for IT in the real world.
Thanks, Andrew Fidel "Laura A. Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/05/2006 04:43 PM Please respond to ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org To <ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org> cc Subject RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS The Windows Server 2003 KMS host will be out soon. In the meantime, Vista is perfectly acceptable to use and it's incredibly simple to decommission it as a KMS host when you implement a Win2K3 host. No TAM support needed. Again, I'd really encourage people to thorougly read the documents I referenced before, because I'm seeing a lot of confusion on this list that indicates that people aren't really understanding how this works (not you in particular, Susan, just a general comment as I've been watching the VLA comments for a little while). Or if you're Neil, you can schedule a LiveMeeting and I'll explain it, because Neil's company is one of my district's customers. ;-) Laura > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] > Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 3:21 PM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS > > I personally am not ready to stick a Vista box as a > "Licensing server". > > ISA still doesn't have a firewall client that works for > one... and I've yet to find a a/v that doesn't BSOD my tablet > pc or act strangely on another box I built. > > In fact I'm still using my Technet 'for testing purposes' > ones as I'm not ready to play with my VL ones. Activation on > the VL ones means "I'm serious to roll"...and quite frankly.. I'm not. > > I still want to see a more formal support story on > Activations in general for folks that aren't TAM supported... > > YMMV and all that. > > Laura A. Robinson wrote: > > I am not at all talking about solutions that don't exist > today. Go to > > a Vista machine and take a look at slmgr.vbs. > > > > Laura > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Tim > > Vander Kooi > > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 05, 2006 12:39 PM > > *To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > > *Subject:* RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS > > > > While Laura and yourself make valid points, you are both talking > > about solutions that do not exist today. I?m just trying to help > > the OP with the problem he is having right now. Getting into the > > full licensing overhead of Vista, not to mention LH, could, and > > undoubtedly will, take weeks and/or months. > > > > For right now, at this very moment, using your VL key > (and I will > > continue to refer to it as a VL key as long as the page > on which I > > am reading it says ? Volume License Product Keys? at the top of > > it) for Vista ? KMS will allow you to activate your installation > > via the web just fine. This is not something I would do for an > > entire enterprise, but for your first few test machines on your > > production network I would do it. > > > > Again YMMV, > > > > Tim > > > > > > > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf > Of *Harvey > > Kamangwitz > > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 05, 2006 10:28 AM > > *To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > > *Subject:* Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS > > > > > > > > If you have any kind of a complex environment, you'll > find volume > > activation to be very frustrating indeed: > > > > > > > > 1. The KMS service can't support more than one key, so > if you have > > Longhorn VL clients in your environment you have to put up a > > second KMS infrastructure for them. > > > > > > > > 2. You can't (rather, shouldn't) use autodiscovery If > you do have > > both LH and Vista. The KMS client can't distinguish > between a KMS > > with LH and a KMS with Vista, and there's nothing in the client > > that says "oh, I hit a KMS but it has the wrong key so try again > > immediately" so ~50% of a client's activation attempts > will fail. > > > > > > > > 3. Autodiscovery isn't practical if you have more than a few > > forests that don't trust the forest your KMS is in. All > admins of > > the untrusted forests must manually register the _vlmcs > record in > > their forest to find the KMS. > > > > > > > > ...the list goes on. (I haven't even mentioned the practical > > aspects of volume activation in a lab or firewalled > environment.) > > It's not a fully-baked solution. > > > > > > > > Depending on your environment, it might be easier to scrap the > > whole autodiscovery, create a DNS CNAME with a couple of KMS > > behind it, stuff the FQDN in the KMS client's registry > if you have > > a standard build, and fugeddaboutit :-). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 12/4/06, *Laura A. Robinson* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > KMS runs on Vista (now), will run on Longhorn when Longhorn is > > released, and > > will also run on Win2K3 as soon as we finish making the Win2K3 > > install. :-) > > > > Laura > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] On Behalf Of > > > Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] > > > Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 1:12 PM > > > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > > <mailto:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org> > > > Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS > > > > > > Nope, I've done it web based. At the present time there are > > > two kinds of keycodes up on MVLS.. one that wants a KMS, the > > > other that will phone home to Redmond automatically. > > > > > > Have your MVLS folks request the other type of key is my > > > understanding how this will work for now. The KMS type won't > > > be out until Longhorn. > > > > > > KMS activations will have to phone home to your > servers twice a > > year. > > > > > > Brian Cline wrote: > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Letting your vendors set your risk analysis these days? > > > http://www.threatcode.com <http://www.threatcode.com/> > > > > > > If you are a SBSer and you don't subscribe to the SBS Blog... > > > man ... 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