One thing I found to be a huge help for this was the Volume Activation Tool. It makes it much easier to see if the clients are using a KMS key and to force them to activate.
http://bit.ly/c5sv7x DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.217.6851 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 1:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: KMS Help Wooo, I may have it going and just didn't know it. Name: Windows(TM) Server 2003 KMS, W7R2-Kms1 edition Description: Windows(TM) Server 2003 KMS, VOLUME_KMS_W7 channel Partial Product Key: <Munged but matches the key> License Status: Licensed Key Management Service is enabled on this machine Current count: 2 Listening on Port: 1688 DNS publishing enabled KMS priority: Normal That 'current count' is that the threshold I need to get to 25 for this thing to start delivering activation? That is low, I have 6 laptops sitting here running that I keep forcing to hit the server for activation. From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 1:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: KMS Help Run this from a cmd and look at your results: "cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs -dli all" DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.217.6851 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 1:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: KMS Help I have that update...version 1.2 Have not used the Office key yet on this server. Just trying to get Win 7 going first. From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 1:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: KMS Help Incorrect. You just need to load up some KMS updates. J I have KMS running on 2003 and it's handing things out for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.217.6851 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 1:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: KMS Help Last I checked, KMS running on server 2003 can't grant licenses for any OS newer than 2003. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 1:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: KMS Help Ok, I am not getting this KMS thing. Windows server 2003 with KMS 1.2 update on it. It is registering in my DNS, seems to be ok there. Now I want it to activate my Win 7 and Office 2010 clients. So I fire the following command: slmgr -IPK MY-WIN7-KEY-IN-HERE and get a pop that says Installed product key successfully. However it does not show after that as a license on the KMS server using -dlv. I have tried -ATO on the Win7 license and that fails. I am missing something obvious here, I think I have made this too complicated in my head. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
