Appeared to be a proper way to get rid of that chaos in my head, by trying to bring all these little pieces, provided all over here, in an order. May be at least it can help others now a bit. Regards EDIT: Corrected a mistake in client-part of my little essay. No NEED to install any patches, my bad. Try edited version.
and get the key to match your installation. Once you have that, enter this into the command prompt. This step might not be needed if you use Windows 8 Pro or Enterprise. You cannot activate a CORE install of Win8 with KMS btw. What is a CORE install exactly? So I shouldn't install a Pro or Enterprise version then?
I overlooked one small point when doing the win 8 kms server activaton backup in advance tokens manager is for win8 ultimate I have only got pro x64 so I cant add the activation
sorry i meant Enterprise I try to restore the tokens and it says this backup is for a different version of windows
Probably worth looking @ ENT in the long run as it has a few more features like Window2Go etc. Your choice really.
So, all KMS instances that are being installed still have the same Extended PID. This Extended PID appears in every activated W8 client. Can't Microsoft release an update that deactivates every client with this Extended PID? Are we really safe? I mean the whole things sounds too good to be true. A KMS that's permanently activated and hands out legit activations for eternity? Surely they must have a killswitch somewhere. I would. Edit: Or did they really forget about VMs with never-changing hardware?
MS knew how to block hard/soft mod in vista, but didn't do it in win7......so worry about the kms block in win9.
I am just little unsure ware to copy activation files to and how to overwrite the uuid then i think ive got it
For that info check the pdf-file, where uuid is found. For uuid navigate file browser to install-directory of your vm and open the *.vmx-file with text editor, search for the string and overwrite with proper uuid from pdf. DONE! Regards
I can think of a few reasons, eg: Windows 7 VHD is smaller Less ram needed for VM, Windows 7 runs fine with just 512MB For KMS host based on Windows 7 i can add one reason more, eg: Also activates Vista Clients
Yes you are right but setup will be like this 1. KMS Host Plus 2. Windows 7 VHD is smaller = 5 GB approx Less ram needed for VM = true Windows 7 runs fine with just 512MB = true Plus 3.Windows 8 vhd or other PC with windows 8 (For which we are setting up all this) when script can remove that second load then why to keep that. Rest it up to individual which way they want to go EDIT: Who told you that windows 8 host cant activate Vista? Thanks
I installed Windows 8 Ent as a virtual using Hacks files on a windows 2012 server activated with by dreamspark key. Then on my machine I use everyday I placed this bat file on my c:/ drive and using the built in task scheduler I scheduled it to run everytime I start my computer, which is usually once a day. My everyday machine is Windows 8 Ent and each time it starts it runs the bat file I edited from the loop file provided earlier. Here is script as I edited it. taskkill /im sppsvc.exe /f net stop sppsvc /y net stop sppsvc /y net stop sppsvc /y del C:\Windows\System32\spp\store\tokens.dat /q del C:\Windows\System32\spp\store\tokens.dat.bak /q attrib -H C:\Windows\System32\spp\store\data.dat del C:\Windows\System32\spp\store\data.dat /q del C:\Windows\System32\spp\store\cache\cache.dat /q rem net start sppsvc /y cscript %systemroot%\system32\slmgr.vbs -ipk GVLKKEY cscript %systemroot%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ckms cscript %systemroot%\system32\slmgr.vbs /skms kms.yourdomain.com cscript %systemroot%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ato No need for a virtual machine client. Every time it starts it runs this modified script and ups the count by 1. In a month it will be 30+. NOTE: First I got my count to 25 by using the original script originally posted I believe by rrohela. Here is script for windows 8 as originally posted. REM Increment KMS to 25 so it starts activating clients REM save as a bat file. REM Windows 8 Enterprise/pro inbuilt KMS Client key used in this one. setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion set /p X=how many time do you want to run :loop set /a N+=1 if !N! gtr !X! goto :eof echo your task goes here taskkill /im sppsvc.exe /f net stop sppsvc /y net stop sppsvc /y net stop sppsvc /y del C:\Windows\System32\spp\store\tokens.dat /q del C:\Windows\System32\spp\store\tokens.dat.bak /q attrib -H C:\Windows\System32\spp\store\data.dat del C:\Windows\System32\spp\store\data.dat /q del C:\Windows\System32\spp\store\cache\cache.dat /q rem net start sppsvc /y cscript %systemroot%\system32\slmgr.vbs -ipk GVLKKEY cscript %systemroot%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ckms cscript %systemroot%\system32\slmgr.vbs /skms kms.yourdomain.com cscript %systemroot%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ato goto :loop Such fun. No client needed. Chuck
It is required coz in every run script will delete activation data to generate new ID & key will lost. So key is required for every loop Thx