You know, there's one thing I may have forgotten to mention- there's a
good whitepaper on this.
:-P
Laura
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*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *MikeM
*Sent:* Saturday, December 09, 2006 12:10 AM
*To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
*Subject:* Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS
So Laura, correct me if I'm wrong, but are you suggesting we read
the white paper?
Seriously, thank you for all of the input on this matter.
-MM-
On 12/8/06, *Laura A. Robinson* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
1. The entire conversation is ~450 BYTES of traffic. If you
can't swing that over six months, you have bigger problems
than activation. SSL-based VPN changes nothing. Connectivity
is connectivity. Why do you assume that activation can't occur
over an SSL-based VPN?
2. If you have no links at all, either look at a KMS host at
the remote sites, or look at MAK activation.
3. Who said anything about you having to have two different
images?
Folks, please read the whitepapers and try this out before you
reject it. The expression "tilting at windmills" comes to mind
with some of these objections.
Laura
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] *On Behalf Of
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*Sent:* Friday, December 08, 2006 11:41 AM
*To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
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*Subject:* RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS
If it's so well baked then how do you support multiple
remote offices with slow VPN links, or none at all? How do
you support field users without a VPN client, or using an
SSL based VPN? Making us use two different images (one for
each key type) isn't a solution since it doubles our
support work and clients may move from one model to the
other. There are plenty of situations where it just
doesn't work well for IT in the real world.
Thanks,
Andrew Fidel
*"Laura A. Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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12/05/2006 04:43 PM
Please respond to
ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
<mailto:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org>
To
<ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
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Subject
RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS
The Windows Server 2003 KMS host will be out soon. In the
meantime, Vista is
perfectly acceptable to use and it's incredibly simple to
decommission it as
a KMS host when you implement a Win2K3 host. No TAM
support needed.
Again, I'd really encourage people to thorougly read the
documents I
referenced before, because I'm seeing a lot of confusion
on this list that
indicates that people aren't really understanding how this
works (not you in
particular, Susan, just a general comment as I've been
watching the VLA
comments for a little while).
Or if you're Neil, you can schedule a LiveMeeting and I'll
explain it,
because Neil's company is one of my district's customers. ;-)
Laura
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] On Behalf Of
> Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 3:21 PM
> To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
<mailto:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org>
> Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS
>
> I personally am not ready to stick a Vista box as a
> "Licensing server".
>
> ISA still doesn't have a firewall client that works for
> one... and I've yet to find a a/v that doesn't BSOD my
tablet
> pc or act strangely on another box I built.
>
> In fact I'm still using my Technet 'for testing purposes'
> ones as I'm not ready to play with my VL ones.
Activation on
> the VL ones means "I'm serious to roll"...and quite
frankly.. I'm not.
>
> I still want to see a more formal support story on
> Activations in general for folks that aren't TAM supported...
>
> YMMV and all that.
>
> Laura A. Robinson wrote:
> > I am not at all talking about solutions that don't exist
> today. Go to
> > a Vista machine and take a look at slmgr.vbs.
> >
> > Laura
> >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] *On Behalf Of
*Tim
> > Vander Kooi
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 05, 2006 12:39 PM
> > *To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
<mailto:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org>
> > *Subject:* RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS
> >
> > While Laura and yourself make valid points, you are
both talking
> > about solutions that do not exist today. I'm just
trying to help
> > the OP with the problem he is having right now.
Getting into the
> > full licensing overhead of Vista, not to mention
LH, could, and
> > undoubtedly will, take weeks and/or months.
> >
> > For right now, at this very moment, using your VL key
> (and I will
> > continue to refer to it as a VL key as long as the
page
> on which I
> > am reading it says " Volume License Product Keys"
at the top of
> > it) for Vista – KMS will allow you to activate your
installation
> > via the web just fine. This is not something I
would do for an
> > entire enterprise, but for your first few test
machines on your
> > production network I would do it.
> >
> > Again YMMV,
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >
> > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] *On Behalf
> Of *Harvey
> > Kamangwitz
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 05, 2006 10:28 AM
> > *To:* ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
<mailto:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org>
> > *Subject:* Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS
> >
> >
> >
> > If you have any kind of a complex environment, you'll
> find volume
> > activation to be very frustrating indeed:
> >
> >
> >
> > 1. The KMS service can't support more than one key, so
> if you have
> > Longhorn VL clients in your environment you have to
put up a
> > second KMS infrastructure for them.
> >
> >
> >
> > 2. You can't (rather, shouldn't) use autodiscovery If
> you do have
> > both LH and Vista. The KMS client can't distinguish
> between a KMS
> > with LH and a KMS with Vista, and there's nothing
in the client
> > that says "oh, I hit a KMS but it has the wrong key
so try again
> > immediately" so ~50% of a client's activation attempts
> will fail.
> >
> >
> >
> > 3. Autodiscovery isn't practical if you have more
than a few
> > forests that don't trust the forest your KMS is in.
All
> admins of
> > the untrusted forests must manually register the
_vlmcs
> record in
> > their forest to find the KMS.
> >
> >
> >
> > ...the list goes on. (I haven't even mentioned the
practical
> > aspects of volume activation in a lab or firewalled
> environment.)
> > It's not a fully-baked solution.
> >
> >
> >
> > Depending on your environment, it might be easier
to scrap the
> > whole autodiscovery, create a DNS CNAME with a
couple of KMS
> > behind it, stuff the FQDN in the KMS client's registry
> if you have
> > a standard build, and fugeddaboutit :-).
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 12/4/06, *Laura A. Robinson*
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> wrote:
> >
> > KMS runs on Vista (now), will run on Longhorn when
Longhorn is
> > released, and
> > will also run on Win2K3 as soon as we finish making
the Win2K3
> > install. :-)
> >
> > Laura
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
> > > [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>] On Behalf Of
> > > Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
> > > Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 1:12 PM
> > > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
<mailto:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org>
> > <mailto:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
<mailto:ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org>>
> > > Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS
> > >
> > > Nope, I've done it web based. At the present
time there are
> > > two kinds of keycodes up on MVLS.. one that wants
a KMS, the
> > > other that will phone home to Redmond automatically.
> > >
> > > Have your MVLS folks request the other type of
key is my
> > > understanding how this will work for now. The
KMS type won't
> > > be out until Longhorn.
> > >
> > > KMS activations will have to phone home to your
> servers twice a
> > year.
> > >
> > > Brian Cline wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I was testing out the RTM of Vista Enterprise
last night
> > > and noticed I
> > > > didn't have to enter a key at any point during the
> install. When
> > > > Windows tried to activate, it told me there was a
> DNS error, so I
> > > > suspected it looks for a local activation
server by
> default. Sure
> > > > enough, in the DNS cache was a lookup for a
nonexistent
> > > > _vlmcs._tcp.domain.com. Upon further research,
it appears
> > Microsoft
> > > > has not released KMS yet, and I couldn't find
any option to
> > > activate
> > > > directly with Microsoft. For the moment, is
telephone
> > > activation the
> > > > only option?
> > > >
> > > > Brian Cline, Applications Developer
> > > > Department of Information Technology
> > > > G&P Trucking Company, Inc.
> > > > 803.936.8595 Direct Line
> > > > 800.922.1147 Toll-Free (x8595)
> > > > 803.739.1176 Fax
> > > >
> > >
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