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)
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.
Ok so to get this right. KMS is active, you can locally activate PC's from your own network till the count gets to 25 then you can start to run it as a public server, correct?
Yes I understand all that, sorry if I'm not explaining correctly. The host won't start activating until it's received a minimum of 25 requests (On a Win 7 Pro host did I read?), then it will start activating and keep the cache of what it's activated for 30 days. So what are the activation files shared by s1ave77 for? Key, activation backup files and uuid are in with the pdf so what are your files for? When the KMS VM has been configured with these activation files the request count is at 0, I also understand the activation count isn't stored in them -so what are they for? Hope I've explained better this time folks, cheers.
Nope, you have to start 25 attempts for activation from 25 different machines, without activation. If treshold is reached, the host starts activating all win 8 machines attempting for. These files were uploaded in the hope, that this treshold count is stored in them too. Shattered dreams so far . To much info to handle your request....