Windows 8 KMS Activation

so every 30 days "vip" party & dj MS

 

lol ... considering all this, I stick with mooo or with my Technet and Dreamspark keys
this 30 day thing is really annoying but make sense in any way as MS thinks about it

 

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You have no idea what you're talking about! You purchase a key from Microsoft and in no way is it tied to a specific machine. Wow RTFM is getting old.

 

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Thanks for efforts of genius persons Can someone post a complete guide in single post to get the job done on Windows 7 or 8 client?

 

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Uh... you mean like the .pdf in the package with all the instructions?

 

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Sorry my mind is not working after 12 hours of work, could you please post a link to that post by any chance? Again sorry (damn work LOL)

 

edited my post above.

 

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Unfortunately the count of 25 activations is not stored in activation files....

 

this is even worse

 

Thanks to all those involved. This works beautifully.

 

Just curious as there is no longer any point to this for me personally. The activation files with the pdf activate the KMS server, so where are the activation files you shared to be used? In a second Win 7 Pro VM that you activate against the KMS VM?

 

Files needed to setup the host itsself, all info for running a host stored in there, exept of that 25 machines count, that is needed to start activating clients.

 

Still not registering with me - sorry.

But the activation files included with the pdf, activate the KMS host anyway don't they?

 

Host is perfectly activated as KMS Host by appliying these files (had to use ubuntu-live-image to do so). But has to be "armed" by 25 requests from different win 8 machines to start activating clients. My host does activate now, but that count is the only thing which is not stored within these files.

 

The activation files included in the zip will activate the KMS Host machine. However, in order to start properly handing out activations to client machines, you need 25 client computers to connect to this KMS host. For those on here that have the KMS Host working, they've either gone through the process of having a VM connect 25 times (see tutorials posted) or have had some mix of physical clients and virtual machines connect to the host (each time, they are not activating successfully assuming they are unlicensed already). As soon as you connect and attempt to activate the 25th client machine, you'll see the KMS host start activating clients successfully.