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Hi, Just deployed a load of laptops running Windows 7 Pro... Only to notice that it was set to use a MAK key and not KMS. Is there a script or something that I can use on startup/login that will change it to KMS and activate? Thanks!

Hi everyone, I've just finished creating an image for a small set of office computers [Windows 7 Pro 64-bit]. The image is very clean, and my sysprep script has skiprearm to 1, and also has 2 scripts that run after the image is deployed. One script sets the product key, and the other script activates it. Anyway, this works great. I captured the image, restarted the reference computer [which would be one of the office computers], and made sure sysprep ran correctly, which it did. However, since sysprep ran correctly, the product key was applied and the machine was activated. Normally, this is great. But I then wanted to add Adobe Reader [cause I forgot to add it to the image like an idiot], and change one other thing with the wallpaper image. Great, did that. Cleaned up again, and ran sysprep using the same unattend.xml. Captured image. When I restarted this time, again, everything went according to plan. But I didn't see the two cscript windows appear the first time I logged in as administrator. I checked Computer Properties though, and it said Windows is Activated. I also checked the event viewer though, and I see one of these: "Installation of the Proof of Purchase failed. 0xC004F050". Only once, at the beginning. The machine seems to be running fine, I'm on it right now typing this. However, it hasn't been on for more than 45 minutes or so, and I've seen some weird things while Googling the above event that say the computer could randomly blue screen after 3 hours and that sort of thing. I just wanted to check with you guys, do you think I'm ok to push this image out to the other few office computers? Or is it safer to scrap it and start again with windows not activated? Or should I just reapply the product key and activate again? Everything seems to work beautifully, just want to be safe. Any thoughts greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!

Hello all, I am working on the test Windows 7 images for a student lab and have a question on KMS/MAK Licensing for a LAB environment; 1. if I use the KMS server for Licensing, after machine gets imaged does it take a license count after the machine talks to the KMS server? 2. if I use the MAK license key, does it count depreciates after the re-image? regards, Francisco

As above, really. Don't have S2012R2 KMS keys, but do have W8.1 KMS keys. Is this achievable without setting up a Windows 8.1 machine to KMS activate the others? As I'd rather change them to MAKs if that's the case!

Just giving you all a heads up for those on the BGFL EES agreement all 7000 activation keys have been used up! I've logged a call with LInk2ICT, when you try activating your windows 7 get an error code 0xC004C020 "The activation server reported that the Multiple Activation Key has exceeded its limit." Steve