No key is required, KMS will hit it pretty quickly. Mark Kent (MCP) Sr. Desktop Systems Engineer Computing & Technology Services - SUNY Buffalo State
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bain.John Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 9:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MDT-OSD] MDT and KMS Keys If no product key is provided during a deployment with MDT 2013 is a KMS product key automatically used to finish the install ? If so is that a deployment script handling that or something built into windows ? Reason I ask, been working on a custom Win8.1 pro image and just noticed that it had a KMS key installed at the end of the deployment. Which I thought was odd as the surface pros i was working on have their MSDM keys buried in the bios/firmware . Also if anyone else has had issues using the MSDM key through a MDT deployment I made a dirty little script that could be used in a task sequence: Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2") Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery( _ "SELECT * FROM SoftwareLicensingService",,48) For Each objItem in colItems msdmKey = objItem.OA3xOriginalProductKey Next strErrorCode = objShell.Run("cscript C:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk " & msdmkey,0,True) if strErrorCode = 0 then WScript.Echo "Success Key has been switched" else WScript.Echo "Fail, Key could not be switched" end if Seems to work enough ;)
