That count should actually increment whenever any of the supported OS clients
connect. The keys for all valid clients are built into the OS so you only need
to add things that come out later. There’s normally an update that handles
that as well, but since you said the Windows 10 box incremented the count your
server apparently has that already. That said, if these clients are already
activated they will only try to reactivate periodically, not at every reboot.
IIRC that default value for workstations is 7 days. If they can’t connect
within 180 days they then flag as unregistered. If you have more than one KMS
server on your network it is possible that they are registering with it instead
so you need to make sure about that. If you do have, you can always stop the
KMS service long enough for the new server to reach the 50 threshold. Until
the server reaches threshold it will not actually activate any clients, they
will be told to come back later. That’s actually a fairly common issue in
environments with relatively low client counts and multiple KMS hosts.
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Joe Tinney
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 11:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Interesting KSM behavior.
Jim,
I apologize for the late reply. Late night lurking stumbled across your
seemingly unanswered thread.
The count will eventually stop ticking and will hover at a predefined value.
The idea is that this value is high enough to ensure the KMS server hands out
real activations.
See here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee939272.aspx
However, that says the number is 50. My gut says that you need to install ALL
host keys for OSes you wish to activate.
From the same article, check out KMS event 12290 for detailed information about
client activation requests. Those have been helpful in the past. It will tell
you what the response was for each client.
Good luck,
Joe Tinney
On Aug 2, 2016 14:04, "Kennedy, Jim"
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I spun up a new 2012 R2 KMS server recently. Put in the fancy 2012R2/Win10 KMS
key and our Office 2010 key. The vast majority of our computers auto start each
day at 6 am but the arm count on the OS was stuck at 24. I even pulled three
spares off the shelf and imaged them with Win 7, slmgr.vbs /ato and the count
stayed at 24.
Then I took one of them and hit it with Win 10 and the count instantly jumped
to 25.
So it seems maybe the count only increments when you hit it with Win 10.
