RE: KMS Best Practices

2010-10-14 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 From: Malcolm Reitz malcolm.re...@live.com To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: 10/13/2010 07:41 PM Subject:RE: KMS Best Practices

RE: KMS Best Practices

2010-10-14 Thread Brian Desmond
Yeah Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 7:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: KMS Best Practices Ah, misunderstood that part in TechNet. They did subscribe

Re: KMS Best Practices

2010-10-14 Thread Anders Blomgren
ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date:10/13/2010 07:41 PM Subject:RE: KMS Best Practices -- MS made some changes with the last update to KMS. The activation threshold for Server 2008/2008R2 has been moved down to 5 while remaining at 25

RE: KMS Best Practices

2010-10-14 Thread Malcolm Reitz
Check the 1st paragraph under “KMS Activation Thresholds”. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff793434.aspx -Malcolm From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 07:46 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: KMS Best Practices

RE: KMS Best Practices

2010-10-14 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
One thing I ran into-one of my two KMS servers is a DC that runs 2008 R2 as a Hyper-V guest. Last winter/spring when I migrated our Hyper-V cluster servers from 2008 SP2 to 2008 R2, I had to upgrade the integration services on all of the vms, including this KMS DC. At that time, the KMS had

RE: KMS Best Practices

2010-10-13 Thread Brian Desmond
You'll want to MAK the servers. You need 25 machines of a specific type (e.g. mapped to a specific KMS key) before the KMS activates against MS. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Wednesday, October

RE: KMS Best Practices

2010-10-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
the other servers use MAK's) I presume? Thanks Brian! jlc From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 5:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: KMS Best Practices You'll want to MAK the servers. You need 25 machines of a specific type (e.g. mapped

RE: KMS Best Practices

2010-10-13 Thread Malcolm Reitz
for them. Are you going to have enough workstations to make this worthwhile? I'd put the KMS on a server that will be around longest. -Malcolm From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 18:27 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: KMS Best

RE: KMS Best Practices

2010-10-13 Thread Malcolm Reitz
Didn't think about Office 2010 - the activation threshold there is 5. -Malcolm From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 18:39 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: KMS Best Practices Ah, misunderstood that part in TechNet. They did

RE: KMS Best Practices

2010-10-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Subject: RE: KMS Best Practices Didn't think about Office 2010 - the activation threshold there is 5. -Malcolm From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 18:39 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: KMS Best Practices Ah, misunderstood that part