This is relevant to the virtualization world because we not only use our favorite hypervisor to run Windows guests, we tend to do it for lots of them, leading us to decide which key should be used to activate a guest. In the current incarnation of Activation, volume licensees have two choices for handling license activation: externally, just like all the retail customers do, and internally, with a key management server.Īs an end result, when a customer logs into the Volume Licensing portal at Microsoft, all their products (requiring activation) should present two types of license keys: MAK (multiple activation key) and KMS (key management server). When these keys, generated for individual organizations, inevitably leaked to the general public, Microsoft added activation on volume license keys with the release of Windows Vista / Server 2008. cd C:\Temp\OfficeKMS cscript.exe kms_host.To better combat software piracy, Microsoft introduced License Activation with Windows XP/Server 2003 however, activation was pretty much implied and automatic if you had volume license keys.
Start Command prompt with administrative permissions, run the command below and follow the wizard.And replace it with the line below, this line just says that Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 (both having version number 10) are also supported:.Open the folder with the copy (C:\Temp\OfficeKMS) and edit the file kms_host.vbs:.Click OK on the error message and press ENTER to close the program.Go to the folder “C:\Program Files (x86)\MSECache\OfficeKMS” and copy the folder to somewhere like (C:\Temp\OfficeKMS).Run KeyManagementServiceHost_en-us.exe until the error message appears.In order to install the KMS Pack on newer operating systems than Windows server 2008R2 you need to perform the following steps: The cause of this problem relies in the VBS script that is being triggered at the end of the installation.
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