With reading up and reading what others have said, we're going to go with KMS. In the long run it seems like the better option to go with and less of a hassle.
_____________________________ Cameron Cooper Network Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 [email protected] | www.aurico.com From: James Hill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 6:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Volume Licensing KMS is the way to go. Be aware that you'll need to configure KMS hosts for Windows and Office. You can run both on the same server (however for some reason Windows 2008 and Vista are not supported as an Office KMS Host but are supported as Windows KMS Hosts). Your KMS host also requires access to the internet as it checks in with the Microsoft every 180 days(?) or so. Office: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee624357.aspx Windows: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772269.aspx James. From: Cameron Cooper [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 11 August 2010 2:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Volume Licensing All, We are new to the Volume Licensing through Microsoft and would like to know which key (KMS or MAK) to use in our environment for migrating to Windows 7 and Office 2010? Environment: - Currently have 60 computers all running Windows XP Pro and a mixture of Office 2003/2007 - Currently have 5 Servers running Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2 (which won't be migrated over to Server 2008 R2 yet) >From what I understand is that KMS is hosted on one machine (server or computer) and the clients renew their activation with that machine. Whereas with MAK, each computer activates to MS. _____________________________ Cameron Cooper Network Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 [email protected] | www.aurico.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
