Windows Server 2008 Activator How To Test It

Like most technical types, I find a way that works for me, and thats the way I do things from then on.

However these last few weeks Ive been putting in a new infrastructure for a local secondary school.

Their internet access is through a proxy server, that refuses to let Windows activation work.

Unfortunately the Administrators of this proxy server were not disposed to give me any help, or let me anywhere near it, to fix it.

I will also add in the licensing KMS mechanism for Office 2010 as well.

Ive gone into a fair bit of detail below but most of you will simply need to follow steps 1-4 (immediately below).

Windows Server 2008 Activator How To Test It

Then how to test it, and finally how to add Microsoft Office 2010 Licenses to the KMS Server.

You do NOT need to add additional keys for Windows 7.

You DO for Office 2010, but Ill cover that below).

Start Right Click Computer Properties.

Or Control Panel System).

You may now need to activate your copy of Windows with Microsoft, this is done as normal, if you cant get it to work over the internet you can choose to do it over the phone.

If you do NOT then you need to allow access through the local firewall for the Key Management Service, (this runs over TCP port 1688).

To allow the service, Start Firewall.cpl enter Allow program or feature through Windows Firewall Tick Key Management Service OK.

If you are making the requests from Windows 2008 Servers then the count is 5.

Note: For Office 2010 the count is 5 NOT 25).

If you look on your domain DNS servers, expand Forward Lookup Zones your domain name tcp You will see an entry for VLMCS that points to your KMS Server.

In a live environment this wont be a problem, (You probably wont be looking at KMS with less than 25 clients).

You simply need to add in Office support, and your Office 2010 KMS key.

As mentioned above, unlike Windows clients, you only need five requests to the KMS server before it will start activating Office 2010 normally.