Win 7 Pro and Pro Upgrade now available on MVLS

[mbedford]

The ISO's are on MVLS for those of us without Technet Plus or MSDN.

 

Mike

[ces973]

Awesome! Downloading as I type this...

[Gatt]

Hmm - How do we stand with the Upgrade Version?

Thought it was not available for use in the EU

Noticed on MVLS a Big "I agree" checkbox about only using it in specific geo-graphical locations....

[ZeroHour]

No signs of R2 on MVLS yet I take it?

Are schools getting ent edition or pro under schools agreement?

[mbedford]

No, there is no 2K8 R2 yet.

 

Well we are an FE College and we have Pro not Enterprise on MVLS, the KMS key we have doesn't really specify which edition we can use.

 

Mike

[rayfleming]

Official answer for Windows Server 2008 R2 19 Aug for existing customers with Software Assurance (ie School Agreement) Windows Server Division WebLog : When to expect Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM

[FN-GM]

No signs of R2 on MVLS yet I take it?

Are schools getting ent edition or pro under schools agreement?

 

You can get MAK keys though

[Diello]

Hmm - How do we stand with the Upgrade Version?

Thought it was not available for use in the EU

 

Think that's changed now that the 'E' editions have been cut, so presume Upgrade editions will be available in the UK. All part of this "pick your browser" feature MS are incorporating.

 

...until Opera say the only "fair" way is to force everyone to have to use their browser that it!!

[mbedford]

You can get MAK keys though

 

Any idea's when these are going to be available?

[Oops_my_bad]

Just checked and Windows 7 enterprise is now available under SA on MVLS

[mbedford]

Found the MAK keys. I was been an idiot! Under "Product Keys" click "New MAK Keys"

 

Mike

[Arthur]

Microsoft's bandwidth bill must be staggering. I've just downloaded all the Windows 7 related ISOs from TechNet which adds up to around 30GB. I'm sure I'm not the only person to have done this.

[FN-GM]

Microsoft's bandwidth bill must be staggering. I've just downloaded all the Windows 7 related ISOs from TechNet which adds up to around 30GB. I'm sure I'm not the only person to have done this.

 

I have just downloaded 4 ISO's.

 

I noticed the 32 bit went much faster than the x64

[sirosis]

Found the MAK keys. I was been an idiot! Under "Product Keys" click "New MAK Keys"

 

Mike

 

Lucky you, I'm getting this...

 

There are no unassigned MAK/KMS keys.

[DrCheese]

hmm... I can only see professional, I thought we was licensed for Enterprise (I have Vista enterprise in my list)

 

I'd want to deploy Enterprise for bitlocker to go, so I can finally enforce encryption on staff usb keys.

[srochford]

I have just downloaded 4 ISO's.

 

I noticed the 32 bit went much faster than the x64

 

That's because the 64 bit ones are wider than 32 bit so you can't get as many in the pipe at the same time or something like that :-)

[powdarrmonkey]

Microsoft's bandwidth bill must be staggering. I've just downloaded all the Windows 7 related ISOs from TechNet which adds up to around 30GB. I'm sure I'm not the only person to have done this.

 

They almost certainly peer with most major transit providers. Their throughput generally is huge, even without all this going on.

[Oops_my_bad]

They should just torrent it really...

[TheKingNL]

Can somebody post a MVLS link directly to the Enterprise x64 download? I still don't get it why I only have the Professional version. We have an active SA and Vista Enterprise etc is posted. Maybe can I download the Enterprise from MLVS if I have a direct link. Thanks!

[Number6]

We were intending to deploy Ultimate but we only seem to have Pro on our VLSC list.

 

Is Ultimate not being provided under School Agreements?

[Soulfish]

Enterprise is the VL version. It's the same as ultimate but volume license only

[ces973]

Anyone having trouble activating their KMS key?

 

I'm quite the KMS newbie, just set it up yesterday actually, and keep getting an invalid key error when I try to activate our KMS key with the MS Licensing Center. Do I need to get a MAK key, and activate that, or should the KMS key work?

 

About the only thing I've done to the KMS server is run the installer and the KB update. I then tried to activate our KMS key, and nothing! So, any help would be appreciated.

[Gatt]

What OS is your KMS server on?

I think for you to activate it then it needs to be either Windows 7 or 2008 R2 for those keys to activate - unless MS plan to issue an update to the current KMS Servers to accept the new keys

[ces973]

It's on a 2003 SP2 x64 box. I tried to install it on a 2008 SP2 x64 server, and kept getting an "insufficient space" error, which kind of befuddled me.

 

I wonder, how are you supposed to activate Win7 or 2008 R2, which isn't out yet, with KMS keys, if you're supposed to install KMS on one of those two systems?

[Gatt]

Win 7 should be able to act as a KMS Server for Windows 7 machines only - same as Vista could be a KMS for KMS A keys (aka Vista)

 

Not sure if you can have multiple KMS Servers though...

 

Windows 2008 R2 is due out next week IIRC, so I'll just let Win7 run on grace until then

 

UPDATE

just posted here on an update for KMS Servers to support the new KMS Keys..

Edited August 8, 2009 by Gatt