Like I was said in my now deleted comment, if the article title says you’re doing something using PowerShell then people will expect something involving a little more than having PowerShell call cmd.exe. Unfortunately, I found this article instead… I was hoping to avoid digging into slmgr.vbs by selecting an article titled, “Changing the product key Using PowerShell”. You’re using a PowerShell console to run a vbscript, as opposed to setting the correct registry key and restarting the appropriate service. The subject matter, according to your title, is using PowerShell to change a product key. All they cared was if the total count servers active on the network matched the licensing rights that we currently owned.Ryan, pointing out the function of the PowerShell console is not being argumentative, I understand it may be sensitive to have your article corrected but it doesn’t change the nature of my comment. We've been audited before, no one cared if the servers were activated. we've found it a little counter productive the KMS server itself will take up one of our licenses. It is ultimately a solvable annoyance (deploy KMS, create self activation scripts, etc), but its not really an actual problem. We keep an ongoing tally of our windows VMs to ensure we stay within the bounds of our licensing. We do MAK license activation, but the ISOs that microsoft provide default to KMS and we have to manually run the "slmgr /ipk KEY-KEY-KEY-KEY-KEY" command to complete an activation, so its kind of a pain in the ass for no real benefit.Įvery VM we roll out is activated as part of the initial system deployment via SCCM.
and its annoying to see the warning, but I might go months and months without actually RDPing into a system and usually when Im there I'm usually more concerned with fixing some other sort of problem. We have Windows VMs, that have valid licensing in place, and have been activated a dozen times, but currently if you RDPd in you'd see the little "need to activate" warning in the bottom corner. In virtualized shops, sometimes the activation will drop if the hardware parameters are changed. Windows server can run indefinitely without activation.
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