How to configure a KMS server in Windows Server 2. R2. Well I have had the pleasure of setting up a KMS server in our environment, and found that the documentation from Microsoft is somewhat confusing. In light of this I will write the steps I used to configure the first KMS server in our organisation for use with Windows Server, Windows client and Microsoft Office activation. These steps will only include the installation of 1 KMS server. Installing first KMS Server. Below are the steps I used to install the KMS server. Provides links to content for previous releases of Windows Server.Products that are listed on this site with a logo have been tested with Microsoft Windows Server 2016, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows. SQL Server Technical Article Writers: Sung Hsueh. Technical Reviewers: Raul Garcia, Sameer Tejani, Chas Jeffries, Douglas MacIver, Byron Hynes, Ruslan Ovechkin. 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Log onto https: //www. Win Srv 2. 00. 8 R2 Data Ctr/Itan KMS C” – Note your key may be similar, but either way it must end in either KMS B, or KMS C. On DC2 we run CMD with elevation. Type slmgr /ipk xxxxx- xxxxx- xxxxx- xxxxx- xxxxx where the last section is the Key from your volume licensing website. Open “Windows Firewall with Advanced Security” via Start menu - > Administrative Tools. Under Inbound Rules scroll down to “Key Management Service (TCP- In)”, right click and select enable. Reboot the machine – note you can restart the Software Licensing service but I preferred to reboot it (seeing as the server was not in use for anything else). Activate server after reboot. This can be done via the GUI or by executing the following command from an elevated command prompt. Enables automatic DNS publishing by the KMS host by entering the below command in an elevated command promt. Note this should already be enabled, but just in case, we execute the command. Office KMS activation will be covered in a later section. I do recommend verifying that the SRV record in DNS is created. Note that you should have no problems with the automatic creation if you are using the vanilla install of AD and have no specific security restrictions in DNS. To verify that the DNS record has been created open up DNS and check. Refer to the screenshot below to see where it lives: Installing Office KMS Host. As mentioned above we have determined that the one KMS box (DC2) is suitable to do all of our activations for Microsoft products, so now we have to configure the Office KMS host on DC2. To do this we do the following: Log onto https: //www. Office 2. 01. 0 Suites and Apps KMS” – Note your key may be similar. If unsure speak to your Microsoft Account Manager. Download the Office 2. KMS Host License Pack from the Microsoft website: http: //www. Family. ID=9. 7b. Its only 9. 03kb so wont take too long. Execute Key. Management. Service. Host. exe from your existing KMS server> In our case its DC2. Follow the prompt to finish the setup process. When prompted enter the KMS key for Office 2. Thats it. Just as easy to setup. Now you are ready to activate Office 2. KMS. To help monitor this, please refer the the section below. Administering the KMS server. I take it now you want to see whether it works and if clients can be activated. Now i will go into administering the KMS server, which will be quite brief as there is not much to it, and is really only there to aid in troubleshooting, and to have a sticky beak when implementing it. Once its running there is no real reason to keep going in and checking up on it. All functions to view settings and make changes are done through the already used VBS script slmgr. To see all the commands simply run slmgr from the command prompt. Note to execute changes you will need elevated command prompt. You will see the following screens: So the most common command that i used were: Displays license information (KMS Activation Count)cscript slmgr. Displays detailed license informationcscript slmgr. For Office specific information you can run the below command to get the info wanted: cscript slmgr. Note I add cscript to the front of the command so that the output stays within the command window, this lets me output/scroll if there is a lot of data where as the usual vbs dialog crops the output. Configuring KMS Clients. By default, Volume Licensing edition of Windows Vista, Windows 7 , Windows Server 2. Windows Server 2. R2 are KMS clients. If the computers the organisation wants to activate using KMS are using any of these operating systems and the network allows DNS auto- discovery, no further configuration is needed. If required you can configure the KMS client to connect to a specific KMS host, use a specific port and disable KMS auto- discovery. When deploying KMS clients using WAIK you can use 2 different methods to prepare the client: SYSPREP – run Sysprep /generalize which will reset the activation timer along with removing SID and a few other settings. Read about this before actually using it. Software License Manager – run slmgr. Note you can only perform this 3 times in total. You can also manually force activation of the client by using the GUI from Control Panel - > System or by running slmgr /ato. If you want to convert MAK installations of Windows or Office to KMS, you need to change their product key, and then reactivate. Use the below keys to perform this: Operating system edition. Product key. Windows 7. Windows 7 Professional. FJ8. 2H- XT6. CR- J8. D7. P- XQJJ2- GPDD4. Windows 7 Professional NMRPKT- YTG2. K7. D7. T- X2. JMM- QY7. MGWindows 7 Enterprise. PXH- 7. Y6. KF- 2. VJC9- XBBR8- HVTHHWindows 7 Enterprise NYDRBP- 3. D8. 3W- TY2. 6F- D4. B2- XCKRJWindows Server 2. R2. Windows Server 2. R2 HPC Edition. FKJQ8- TMCVP- FRMR7- 4. WR4. 2- 3. JCD7. Windows Server 2. R2 Datacenter. 74. YFP- 3. QFB3- KQT8. W- PMXWJ- 7. M6. 48. Windows Server 2. R2 Enterprise. 48. J6- VHDMP- X6. 3PK- 3. K7. 98- CPX3. YWindows Server 2. R2 for Itanium- Based Systems. GT6. 3C- RJFQ3- 4. GMB6- BRFB9- CB8. VWindows Server 2. R2 Standard. YC6. KT- GKW9. T- YTKYR- T4. X3. 4- R7. VHCWindows Web Server 2. R2. 6TPJF- RBVHG- WBW2. R- 8. 6QPH- 6. RTM4. Office 2. 01. 0 Suites. Office Professional Plus 2. VYBBJ- TRJPB- QFQRF- QFT4. D- H3. GVBOffice Standard 2. V7. QKV- 4. XVVR- XYV4. D- F7. DFM- 8. R6. BMOffice Home and Business 2. D6. QFG- VBYP2- XQHM7- J9. RH- VVRCKOffice 2. Stand- alone products. Access 2. 01. 0V7. Y4. 4- 9. T3. 8C- R2. VJK- 6. 66. HK- T7. DDXExcel 2. 01. 0H6. QG- HXVKF- PP4. HP- 6. KMR- CW9. BMShare. Point Workspace 2. QYYW6- QP4. CB- MBV6. G- HYMCJ- 4. T3. J4. Info. Path 2. 01. K9. 6W8- 6. 7RPQ- 6. T9. Y- J8. FQJ- BT3. TOne. Note 2. 01. Q4. Y4. M- RHWJM- PY3. F- MTKWH- D3. XHXOutlook 2. YDC2- CWM8. M- RRTJC- 8. MDVC- X3. DWQPower. Point 2. 01. 0RC8. FX- 8. 8JRY- 3. PF7. C- X8. P6. 7- P4. VTTProject Professional 2. YGX6. F- PGV4. 9- PGW3. J- 9. BTGG- VHKC6. Project Standard 2. HP3. K- 8. 8W3. F- W2. K3. D- 6. 67. 7X- F9. PGBPublisher 2. 01. BFK7. F- 9. MYHM- V6. C7- DRQ6. 6- 8. 3YTPWord 2. HVHB3- C6. FV7- KQX9. W- YQG7. 9- CRY7. TVisio 2. 01. 0Visio Premium 2. D9. DWC- HPYVV- JGF4. P- BTWQB- WX8. BJVisio Professional 2. MCW8- VRQVK- G6. 77. T- PDJCM- Q8. TCPVisio Standard 2. HD- QGMWX- 8. QTDB- 9. G3. R2- KHFGJYou can convert Windows and Office from MAC to KMS using the GUI available, or you can use the following commands: Windows. To install a KMS key, type slmgr. Kms. Key at a command prompt. To active online, type slmgr. To activate by using the telephone, type slui. Office. To install a KMS key, type ospp. Kms. Key at a command prompt. To active online, type ospp. Important Links. Here are the resources that I got most of the information I needed.
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