KMS vs VAMT

[Ginger9997]

Hi guys,
Im suffering from a little bit of confusion. I have put in KMS and its working fine and im using event viewer to make sure everything is running smoothly. No devices will have a MAK key. Now is there any advantage to me having VAMT running aswell? Can be used for reporting or is it just a different method of providing licensing? Thanks for your help!

[Hedghog]

VMAT is just a licensing managment tool - it lets you look at which clients have connected/not connected, what keys you have installed etc

[BHMS]

VAMT only really shines when you are activating clients that don't have an internet connection or you don't have enough for KMS.

[Ginger9997]

Thanks lads. So with my KMS in place and working fine theres really no need for VAMT. I thought they would have made a decent report for the KMS host!

[AngryTechnician]

The main thing I use VAMT for these days is getting human-readable error messages when activation doesn't work. It's pretty rare that I open it up.