TSforge Activation (Windows/ESU/Office) (MAS)

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  1. witherornot

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    Hacker?pcs MDL Member

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    Are there generic keys for those channels? Or just leaked keys (found where?) that can be used?
     
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  4. witherornot

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    I only have an Ultimate VM, so I'll show that.

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    Business and Enterprise also have phone licenses, so they will work as well. If you really need confirmation, you can make a VM and test it.
     
  5. oyh023

    oyh023 MDL Novice

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    Which retail/oem/mak keys can be activated with tsforge's zerocid on Vista/2008 systems?
    vista ultimate/enterprise/business
    2008 r1 standard/enterprise/datacenter
     
  6. Carlos Detweiller

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    Basically every license channel that can be activated by phone.
     
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  7. witherornot

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    Every key channel except OEM:SLP and Volume:GVLK
     
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  9. abbodi1406

    abbodi1406 MDL KB0000001

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    It works fine here with that fix
    is firewall working?

    try -o1 instead -o3
     
  10. oyh023

    oyh023 MDL Novice

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    Are there generic keys for those channels? Or just leaked keys (found where?) that can be used?
    retail/oem/mak keys can be activated with tsforge's zerocid
    vista ultimate/enterprise/business
    2008 r1 standard/enterprise/datacenter
     
  11. witherornot

    witherornot MDL Junior Member

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    I gave the keys for Server 2008, for Vista you can just install without specifying a key and it will install a generic retail key
     
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    oyh023 MDL Novice

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    #133 oyh023, Mar 30, 2025
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    Please test vista business/enterprise zerocid

    Please test zero count(not online activation) mak keys from vista business/enterprise and 2008(non r2) standard/enterprise/datacenter
     
  13. Hacker?pcs

    Hacker?pcs MDL Member

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    #134 Hacker?pcs, Mar 30, 2025
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    On Vista it does work

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    on 2008 R1 Datacenter not

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    Firewall is the same on both, on by default, it's straight after install, I installed just VMware tools, 7zip and .net 4 for TSforge

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    Enterprise (en_windows_vista_enterprise_sp2_x86_dvd_342329.iso) is installed as KMS client, not retail so zcid doesn't work, kms4k does work. I haven't tested Business

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  14. witherornot

    witherornot MDL Junior Member

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    There's no purpose in testing MAKs, they will have the same behavior as Retail keys.

    Business seems to come with a Retail key installed. I wasn't able to find a generic Retail key for Enterprise, so kms4k seems to be the best option short of finding another key.
     
  15. Hacker?pcs

    Hacker?pcs MDL Member

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    Business (en_windows_vista_business_sp2_x86_dvd_342321.iso) actually is KMS Client too

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    About kms4k, seems to be a superior way to the old KMS-VL-ALL-7.2RC5 way, at least on Vista where no other KMS emulation/solution is supported? Any downsides?
     
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    oyh023 MDL Novice

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    #139 oyh023, Mar 30, 2025
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    Please test zerocid/kms4k from:
    vista enterprise n/business n/home premium/home basic
    web server 2008 r1
    hpc server 2008 r1
    Storage Server 2008 r1
    Small business server 2008 r1
    server 2008 r1 without hyperv version (standard/enterprise/datacenter)
    Please making special tsforge zerocid/kms4k cmd from vista and server 2008(non-r2) all version.
     
  18. Hacker?pcs

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    #140 Hacker?pcs, Mar 30, 2025
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    The basic principle from what I understand is, for older or niche Windows versions that aren't supported by MAS or KMS_VL_ALL_AIO :
    - If there are available Retail, MAK or OEM keys you change to them via slmgr /ipk and activate with TSforge /zcid
    - If not and there is are only KMS client keys, you activate with TSforge /kms4k

    On both cases the activation is permanent
     
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