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Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Among other things, you will learn about Among other things you will learn which Office activation is a new topic that many users and admins face.

This article explains how you can He has more than Lukas, that is interesting because we only got activations even though we have about PCs. However, according to our contract we can install an unlimited number of Vista machines since we only pay per employee.

One thing is for sure, though, these activations would never be enough if we only use MAK activation. One problem is how often will tthe PCs de-activate. Some tests we ran on a test lab comprised of 15 PCs enterprise total resulted in reactivation needed for many different scenarios: driver updates, network client product replacement, NIC replacements Microsoft has been complettely quiet and uncooperative about providing any means to at least beeing able to plan for this kind of event.

Some of those machines might not be able to connec to the network in that time frame! Anybody been more succesfull obtaining some info about what events or combinaion of events will trigger a reactivation? If you work with MAKs, however, you have to invest extra work to get them activated again. So what happens if you have employees that build and activate machines on a domain using a KMS server, then permanantly take the system off the domain to an isolated location no longer in contact with the KMS server?

You won't be able to work on it anymore at this point. Actually, this is why Microsoft offers the MAK solution. If I'm looking to deploy 2 Windows servers initally, but know forwell in the future there will be more than 5 then what do I have to do? What I have read points in the direction of MAK, but if I install these and activate under MAK then install another two actiavting them using MAK and finally deploy my 5th then can they all start to using KMS or because the other 4 are already activated under MAK will the KMS service not work unitl 5 winodws servers are deployed at the same time?

Hope this makes sense. You could use the VAMT tool version 2. Mike, you can install product keys remotely with VAMT 2. Check out my review. Alos, hosting KMS doesn't make sense. KMS was introduced because many organizations don't want that their Windows clients contact Microsoft servers. However all machine have Internet access. And by using of these keys how many machine can I activate? How many Users can use with KMS license.? KMS requires a minimum number of either physical or virtual computers in a network environment.

These minimums, called activation thresholds, are set so that they are easily met by Enterprise customers. Activation Thresholds for Windows — Your organization must have at least five 5 computers to activate servers running Windows Server , Windows Server R2, or Windows Server and at least twenty-five 25 computers to activate client systems running Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8.

Your email address will not be published. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting. Receive new post notifications. Will you deploy Windows 11 to end users in your organization in ? View Results. Member Leaderboard — Month. Member Leaderboard — Year. Author Leaderboard — 30 Days. Author Leaderboard — Year. Leos Marek posted an update 2 hours, 56 minutes ago. For me it also broke my finger print scanner. Activation is not licensing; it's a means of ensuring that installations are licensed.

Neither we nor Microsoft negotiated the Campus Agreement with the understanding that there was a fixed relationship between the number of employees and the number of computers eligible for upgrade to the latest version of Office or Windows at UW-Madison. The bottom line is that departmental users do not need to concern themselves with the number of licenses or the number of allowed installations on UW-Madison-owned computers.

They only need to ensure that the machine can be legally upgraded using departmental media, which means that it must be owned by the UW-Madison for all software and have a full Windows OS license associated with it for the Windows upgrade.