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. Upgrading-SQL-Evaluation-to-Volume-Licen_D657/image_11.png' alt='Windows Server 2003 Standard Volume License' title='Windows Server 2003 Standard Volume License' />How Miicrosofts HyperV licensing works across the different editions of Windows Server Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter. 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. We determined that due to the number of client activations, and the capacity of our infrastructure we had no problems installing this server on our secondary domain controller. From here on we will call it DC2. Upgrading-SQL-Evaluation-to-Volume-Licen_D657/image.png' alt='Windows Server 2003 Standard Volume License' title='Windows Server 2003 Standard Volume License' />Log onto https www. Win Srv 2. 00. 8 R2 Data CtrItan 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. Now you are done installing your KMS server. Note this will provide activation for clients andor servers depending on the KMS key you used to activate DC2. 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. ID9. 7b. Its only 9. 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. TNBlogsFS/prod.evol.blogs.technet.com/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/00/00/00/63/57/metablogapi/4745.image_thumb_716BCC7D.png' alt='Windows Server 2003 Standard Volume License' title='Windows Server 2003 Standard Volume License' />Windows Server 2008 R2 is a server operating system produced by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing RTM on July 22, 2009 and launched on October 22, 2009. Windows Server Features installable with Server Manager or PowerShell Windows Server 2016 Standard Windows Server 2016 Datacenter. NET Framework 3. 5. A comprehensive Windows 10 resource for IT professionals. Find downloads, tools, technical documentation, best practices, and other learning resources to help upgrade. Support for NUMA Windows Server 2003 SP1 and later operating systems provide special support for machines with a nonuniform memory architecture. 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. Windows Server 2003 Standard Volume License' title='Windows Server 2003 Standard Volume License' />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 Countcscript 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 outputscroll 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. Hi, Can i confirm that you mean to say that if i purchase Server 2008 R2 Enterprise now less than 90 days before Server 2012 is out then i can license myself for. License conversion. You can convert Windows Server 2016 Standard retail to Windows Server 2016 Datacenter retail. You can convert Windows Server 2016 Essentials. Like other Microsoft products, MS Office 2013 is available under the VL program Volume License. We remind that Volume License is a licensing option for. Follow these steps to set up a KMS host 1. If you are running Windows Server 2003, you will need to perform this extra step. You will need to download and. 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. 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