It was there, but I did up the weight. When you register the kms server it puts the dns record in. With the machines I put the kms server ip in, they have been talking now just like they should. Once done with the reimage of the desktops I will see what happens.
Hey there has to be someone that finds issues with stuff otherwise we wouldn't be able to help out each other. This is a learning experience. Having issues means I also am making things better in the network. Thanks everyone for the help. Dan Daniel Zobel Director of Technology Heyworth CUSD#4 Direct Phone 309-473-2250 Grade School 309-473-2822 High School 309-473-2322 Unit Office 309-473-3727 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of McKay, Curtis Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 4:03 PM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] KMS server activation You can drill down into the DNS server and check to see that the actual SRV record exists. That's the DNS that you need to check for. Following and adjusting accordingly this guide from a university will point out what you need to make sure exists: http://microsys.unity.ncsu.edu/documentation/Microsoft-Volume-License-Activa tion/KMS/KMS-Automatic-Activation.php Curtis McKay Network Administrator Belleville Township High School [email protected] ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Zobel [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 1:26 PM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] KMS server activation I also have the main firewall, ipcop, running dns as the secondary. The windows firewall was on. At the moment I have 20 netbook machines registered for the activation count, but I have to reimage my desk tops as I didn't run sysprep for those machines as I have never before with zenworks, but because of win 7 the sysprep generalize feature has to run for activation to see each Machine as an individual machine or the activation sever sees each machine as one even if the Sid was changed. So I now am waiting for the image to finish and will come back latter tonight to push it out to my desktops. I will try to take off the secondary dns and firewall on my netbooks and see if they talk to the kms server. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 17, 2010, at 12:42 PM, "Steele, Thomas C" <[email protected]> wrote: > Is that box the only DNS server that the workstations are set to resolve to? > > Any local firewall on the box? > > Thomas C Steele > Technology Director > Manteno CUSD #5 > > Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Zobel [[email protected]] > Received: 7/17/10 12:38 PM > To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List [[email protected]] > Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] KMS server activation > > I run novell, but use a windows 2003 server. I can see the kms record in dns. When I do the nslookup command that is the troubleshooting guide it pulls up the record, but if I try to active the machine it says no dns record found. If I set the kms server ip in the system it works fine. So I am not sure what is fully going on. I know that dns is working just fine as the dns machine is the kms server and does dhcp. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 17, 2010, at 12:12 PM, "Steele, Thomas C" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Are you using AD integrated DNS and do your workstations all hit the internal DNS exclusively? >> >> Also did you actually go on and look for the records in DNS? >> >> Thomas C Steele >> Technology Director >> Manteno CUSD #5 >> >> Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com<http://www.nitrodesk.com>) >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Daniel Zobel [[email protected]] >> Received: 7/17/10 11:23 AM >> To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List [[email protected]] >> Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] KMS server activation >> >> Do you mean check the dns records? I have been following through the kms troubleshooting guide and everything comes back good on that, but on the machines I get a no dns could when I try to register. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jul 17, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Joshua Halls <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> We also had another server that registered causing issues, either way, might check that out. >> >> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Joshua Halls <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Did you check the service record to see if it was there? Perhaps it didn't register? Kind of sounds like it. >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Daniel Zobel <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]<mailto:[email protected] 12.il.us>> wrote: >> Well I found something out in my hunt of getting my KMS set up. If I manually set the kms server in the client, slmgr -skms ip:1688 , then the client talks to the server. Still not sure why it just doesn't set it up automatically. >> >> Dan >> >> Daniel Zobel >> Director of Technology >> Heyworth CUSD#4 >> Direct Phone 309-473-2250 >> Grade School 309-473-2822 >> High School 309-473-2322 >> Unit Office 309-473-3727 >> >> From: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:<mailto:[email protected]>tech-geeks-boun...@tech-ge eks.org<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Brittin, Andrew >> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 8:28 AM >> >> To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List >> Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] KMS server activation >> >> Yeah, when we setup the system we didn't get data until 25 was hit (To help this out we also converted many of our MAK licenses over with the VAMT while we were deploying our updated systems with KMS). >> Andrew Brittin >> Technician | Desktop Manager >> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> Technology Department >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Bloomington Public Schools District 87 >> 1202 E. Locust St. Bloomington, IL 61701 >> c: 309.824.3005 >> w: 309.828.7115 >> >> From: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:<mailto:[email protected]>tech-geeks-boun...@tech-ge eks.org<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of McKay, Curtis >> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 1:14 PM >> To: 'Tech-Geeks Mailing List' >> Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] KMS server activation >> >> If I remember correctly on ours, nothing showed up until I hit that 25 limit. You might just want to wait until that can happen before you beat your brains out on this one. >> Curtis McKay >> Network Administrator >> Belleville Township High School District 201 >> <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> >> From: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:<mailto:[email protected]>tech-geeks-boun...@tech-ge eks.org<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Daniel Zobel >> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 12:46 PM >> To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List >> Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] KMS server activation >> >> That is what I thought too. Do I have to put in the KMS client license? If I could just walk down the hall and turn on 10 more machines I would be at 25, but they are waxing the floors so I am stuck. >> >> Dan >> >> Daniel Zobel >> Director of Technology >> Heyworth CUSD#4 >> 309-473-2250 - Direct # >> 309-473-2822 - Grade School >> >> >>>>> Joshua Halls <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 7/15/2010 12:18 PM >>> >> The KMS server should register in DNS as a service record so the Win7 machines will contact it. After that it does it automatically, you don't setup a registration key or anything on the machine. You might try manually activating the machine to force it to try KMS. >> --Josh >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Daniel Zobel <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]<mailto:[email protected] 12.il.us>> wrote: >> I am now more confused than I was yesterday. My KMS server is active and working as far as I know. I found out I had to activate that system so that it would start working. So for those you have a KMS server do you have to do anything to the systems once you have 25 machines? I am looking at my even log on the kms server and I don't see anything with my imaged machines. I can see that the machines that I was making were trying to register, but there is nothing since I have imaged machines. I know that the machines should be talking a whole lot more for a kms server as they are suppose to try to register every 120 secs. >> if I do a slmgr -dli on the kms server it doesn't show any machines have been talking to it, as it should show unregistered machines too. >> So I am a little lost. I know the 25 hasn't been hit yet, latter today, but I should see a little bit of activity at least. >> Any help would be great. >> Dan >> Daniel Zobel >> Director of Technology >> Heyworth CUSD#4 >> 309-473-2250 - Direct # >> 309-473-2822 - Grade School >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech-geeks mailing list >> <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]<mailto:Tech-geek [email protected]> >> <http://lists.illinicloud.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech-geeks>http://lis ts.illinicloud.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech-geeks >> >> >> ________________________________ >> THIS TRANSMISSION IS INTENDED AND RESTRICTED FOR USE BY THE ABOVE ADDRESSEE ONLY. IT MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR PRIVILEGED INFORMATION EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER FEDERAL OR STATE LAW. IN THE EVENT SOME OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY RECEIVES THIS TRANSMISSION, SAID RECIPIENT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT ANY DISSEMINATION, DISTRIBUTION, OR DUPLICATION OF THIS TRANSMISSION OR ITS CONTENTS IS PROHIBITED. 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