Will this work even if the systems aren't getting activated using KMS? I'll try this in the coming days and see.
We have relevant VL licences along with SA agreements for our Windows licences and as far as I was this was enough to grant us reimaging rights and activating through OEM/Retail channels. http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/D/4/3D42BDC2-6725-4B29-B75A-A5B04179958B/Reimaging.pdf This has worked fine for Windows Vista/7, we never got around to rolling out Windows 8(.1) but are now trying to roll out Windows 10. If a retail/OEM key is provided during the MDT deployment, there is no issue with deploying the image. The only problem I'm seeing is when deploying to Windows 8 systems with built-in BIOS keys. The OOBE wizard asks for it but if I manually skip it it'll successfully complete installing and activating. It's almost like there would be a flag somewhere I can set to hide/skip that page. Regards, Freddy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Niehaus Sent: Thursday, 3 December 2015 12:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MDT-OSD] RE: Windows 10 Product Key prompt on deployed system Is this a VL image? Are you wanting to activate it using KMS? If so, you can specify a generic KMS client setup key to make the machine seek out a KMS server. See https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj612867.aspx, use key W269N-WFGWX-YVC9B-4J6C9-T83GX. Typically this key is embedded in a VL image. If you are using OEM media to do this, then you've got other issues... Thanks, -Michael -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Freddy Grande Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2015 9:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MDT-OSD] Windows 10 Product Key prompt on deployed system Hi all, I feel like I've missed something obvious and my Bing-fu isn't working very well. Does anyone know how to bypass the "It's time to enter the product key" screen after the deployed Windows 10 OS is installed? I can manually just tap "Do this later" but I need this to be automated. The system is a Dell Venue 11 Pro that originally came with Windows 8 (built in BIOS key I believe). After skipping through not entering a key the system automatically activates. I'm deploying a captured Windows 10 Pro x64 1511 image. This also happened with the vanilla 1511 ISO and with the RTM Windows 10 ISO (after the system had activated post-upgrade). Helps? Regards, Freddy NOTICE: This email is confidential. If you are not the nominated recipient, please immediately delete this email, destroy all copies and inform the sender. Australian Maritime Systems Ltd. (AMS) prohibits the unauthorised copying or distribution of this email. This email does not necessarily express the views of AMS. AMS does not warrant nor guarantee that this email communication is free from errors, virus, interception or interference.
