Windows 8 KMS Activation

Seeing that win8kms4.mooo.com is currently offline I activated an Enterprise install using the columbia.edu server. That worked fine but what happens when that server becomes permanently "offline"?
Will it remain activated until the end of the 180 days?

 

Nope, will not, after 180 days activation has to be renewed. So build your own host .

 

No I mean will it remain activated between now and 180 days even if the server that activated it is unreachable?

 

Answer to this is: YES.

 

slmgr.vbs -ipk <KMS KEY>
slmgr -skms TeArServers.No-Ip.Org
slmgr.vbs -ato

* Any 1 test please ?

 

of course it will. System only seeks new activation latest after 180 days

 

Seems, you did it right. Working here, tested twice.

 

Seems one day we have more mushrooms than clients ... lol
Now I setup my hamachi VPN and provide this just in case one cannot activate against an open server

 

Yep, did this too and stored this state with snapshot in VM, very comfortable this.... As promised, we can provide a huge Tsunami of hosts.

 

Tested too, it works.

 

Plz someone tell me how to make a public KMS server reachable by everyone ? I success to make it Local, but not for public... Is the port :1688 enough for that thing ?

 

ok ok Thkns for check

 

All I did was forward port 1688 to the local IP of my VM in the router settings.

 

If you want it reachable from all over the Net, you have to give your host a dynamic IP/adress with a service like no-ip or dynDNS or similiar, just google for it.

 

is there any security flaw doing this ?

 

Not to my knowledge. A lot of users here doing it this way .

 

Not a security hole (unless there's some unknown vulnerability in KMS), but potentially a query from M$ or similar. Still not much of a concern though, with all of the mushrooms "out there" now. And with the Columbia EDU folks hanging themselves out there as they are, we little people aren't the ones with targets on our backs.

 

Ok thanks guys, now what i have to do is to redirect my DNS ip to my VM KMS ip, is that right ?

 

Correct. Then you only have to test .

 

I've installed Windows 8 (no PRO or Enterprise).

Is the key the same as PRO ?

Thank you. (Sorry if i'm not allowed to ask)