RE: Windows Product Activation and KMS Server

2013-04-05 Thread Oliver Leach
apache.org Subject: RE: Windows Product Activation and KMS Server You could write a script that runs once on boot, say after sysprep has completed, that registers the Windows instance with a public facing KMS server that is only accessible in your environment, for example, the public IP ranges s

RE: Windows Product Activation and KMS Server

2013-04-05 Thread Len Bellemore
t: RE: Windows Product Activation and KMS Server You could write a script that runs once on boot, say after sysprep has completed, that registers the Windows instance with a public facing KMS server that is only accessible in your environment, for example, the public IP ranges supplied in Cloud

Re: Windows Product Activation and KMS Server

2013-04-05 Thread Paul Sanders
Hi Len, You could create a NAT rule and pass that through to your KMS server. I would set some ACLs on your firewall to only accept traffic from your public ip range (which is assigned to your tenant VMs/Virtual Routers). Sysprep can be used to point to the FQDN for that KMS server. KMS agents ac

RE: Windows Product Activation and KMS Server

2013-04-05 Thread Oliver Leach
You could write a script that runs once on boot, say after sysprep has completed, that registers the Windows instance with a public facing KMS server that is only accessible in your environment, for example, the public IP ranges supplied in Cloudstack that your instances use as a source NAT to a

Re: Windows Product Activation and KMS Server

2013-04-05 Thread Ignazio Cassano
Hi, I do not know kms server so I used sysprep. Regards 2013/4/5 Len Bellemore > Hi Guys, > > Anyone have a solution for activating Windows instances using a KMS server? > > Given that the KMS server needs to be publicly available to Cloud users, > but not to general internet traffic, we need t