Common KMS Licensing Mistakes and Solutions
This is probably going to be a relatively short one. Here we are, 4 years after the initial release of Server 2008. 4 years after the initial implementation of KMS licensing… and I’m still coming across all sorts of confusion about how it works and how to use it. I’m tired of seeing unintentional rogue KMS servers pop up on client networks, and so I’m going to rehash what many other people have already covered: how KMS licensing differs from Volume License Keys. They are not at all the same, and if you try to use a KMS license key the way you would have used a VLK, your environment is going to get messed up. First, here’s some supposition about why the change happened. When someone’s VLK leaked into the wild, it was basically a gravy train for every pirate who knew how to use google. Since, by its very nature, a VLK was designed to allow many systems to activate, it meant that many pirate systems would be activated. At best, Microsoft could k...