KMS Muddle

[Hedghog]

Hi All,

 

I have managed to really muddle my mind trying to get Win 7 KMS licenceing to work. I managed to work out how to setup a KMS host for office 2010 and it is working (don't ask why we did it this way round).

But try as I might I cannot get my head around the combination of events/actions that I need to have/do to get the windows 7 activation working.

Right here is the current status

KMS host 2008 R2 server licenced with a MAK_B licence and validating Office 2010 KMS clients

Q1 Can I use this to validate win 7 kms

Q2 If so how can I get the server to act as KMS host for Win 7 as the clients I have set up report no KMS server available.

Q3 Can I force activation from a client to stop the installation timing out before I reach the required 25 clients for automatic validation because we are in a testing phase.

Cheers in anticipation

[Bezwick]

Q1 = Should be able too as long as you add a Windows 7 KMS key

Q2 = We had that problem, it seams to go away once you hit the 25 limit mentioned in Q3

Q3 = Never found a way round it either, it is a pain until you reach that 25 limit

[sonofsanta]

If you're in a testing phase, use the MAK keys for now - you can switch them over to KMS later if you want to.