There is an unofficial KMS server emulator that will activate Windows or Office even if the software was not licensed or paid for, and regardless of whether or not there are 25 or more computers on the network. If the KMS activation fails (for example, because the KMS server is not available or there are less than 25 computers on the network), a watermark telling the user to activate Windows will appear in the bottom right corner of the screen. There must be at least 25 KMS-activated computers (5 for Windows Server) on the network to use KMS. The KMS server can be automatically detected by DNS if the proper DNS record is present, or it can be manually entered using the slmgr command. A KMS client will try to activate once every 7 days, and if it fails it will try again every 2 hours. KMS clients must be activated at least once every 180 days. Individual computers do not need to contact Microsoft, although the KMS server does. KMS is used by volume license customers, usually medium to large businesses, schools, and non-profits. Activation ensures that the software is obtained from and licensed by Microsoft. If it does not, this should be troubleshot as a KMS client activation issue outside of PVS. Remember PVS involvement is only to ensure unique CMID generation.KMS (Key Management Service) is one of the methods to activate Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. If the /ato command is successful, Windows will show as ‘activated’ shortly. It’s important to understand that PVS has no control over when the activation will take place. Below is a snippet of the output of the command. You can also look for the above information by running the slmgr /dlv command. If activation fails, it may be because the count is not sufficient for this client OS or that there are not enough systems in the environment to build the count.
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