![]() ![]() I tried the /DLV switch, which will display detailed license information. This confirms our Active Directory is correctly configured to activate Windows KMS Clients Knowing that the SLMGR command is my friend for license activation, I continued with different options. The results show that we have two Activation Objects: one for Server 2012 R2, and our newly created KMS AD Activation (** LAB) which is our Windows Server 2016 license. The AO-LIST switch displays all activation objects in Active Directory. I went to one of my problem servers, opened a command prompt, and checked my output from the SLMGR /AO-LIST command. Of course, the first question was "What changed over the weekend?" And as usual the answer was "nothing." This time, nothing really had been changed, and we had to figure out what was going on. I went to the customer to discuss what had happened. Hey! That's not right! I went back to the physical machine and it was fine. I came back into the office on Monday, and all the virtual machines I had built the week prior showed that they weren't activated. Truthfully, the set up and configuration were super easy, so that part was simple and straight forward. ![]() Ha Ha! Just kidding! Nothing is ever that easy. We built a physical server running Windows 2016 Standard, and the machine activated properly. At this point everything was great, and everyone was happy. We started by building four virtual machines, two Windows 2016 Standard and two Windows 2016 Datacenter. We pretty much followed the blog post step by step. We installed our KMS key and gave it a name of KMS AD Activation ( ** LAB). We installed the role on a Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain Controller and chose Active Directory Based Activation as our Volume Activation Method. The domain controllers in our test environment were all running Windows Server 2012 R2, so we did not need to prep our forest. We began our deployment by following the instructions in this excellent blog post by Charity Shelbourne. As proper procedure for making all changes, we started our migration in the customer's test environment. We took this opportunity to also migrate their activation methodology from a KMS Server to Active Directory Based Activation. I recently helped a customer with deploying Windows Server 2016 in their environment. Hello everyone! My name is Mike Kammer, and I have been a Platforms PFE with Microsoft for just over two years now. The key you need is called Windows Srv 2016 DataCtr/Std KMS and is located in License -> Relationship Summary -> Product Keys.Ĭscript.exe %windir%\system32\slmgr.First published on TechNet on Mar 26, 2018 You can get this key on Microsoft Volume License (VLSC) website. ![]() KMS Server Activation Using CSVLKĪfter installation or update of your KMS server, activate it with CSVLK (so called KMS Host Key). So you won’t be able to use KMS in Windows Server 2008 R2 to activate Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10 Enterprise 2016 LTSB. There are no updates for KMS role on Windows Server 2008R2. If your KMS host is deployed on Windows Server 2012 R2, install the updates from the following KBs: KB3172615 is an update that allows to activate clients running Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 LTSB (1607).KB3058168 (this update enables KMS activation support of the clients running Windows 10).If your KMS server is running Windows Server 2012, install two updates following the links in these KBs: You can upgrade the current server to support KMS activation of Server 2016. If you already have a KMS server deployed in your enterprise and running one of the earlier Windows versions, you don’t need to deploy new Server 2016 with the KMS server role. Updating Current KMS Server to Support Windows Server 2016 Activation ![]()
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