Activation Options in C#.NET

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hich method to use That is one of the most common questions that we hear from our customers about Volume activation. It is a decision that you need

to make before any systems are deployed. When we were designing Volume activation, it was clear that there were a wide variety of customer deployment models and use cases that needed to be considered. For example, a well-connected, global corporate intranet would have very different requirements from a disconnected development and test lab. accordingly, two methods were developed to give the level of flexibility that our customers needed: KMS and MaK. Customers can use one or both methods, depending on how they deploy and use their machines. KMS is the recommended solution for most customer use cases, for a variety of reasons. First, it is automated and simple for the administrator to configure. The KMS clients detect and use the service for activation on their own, without any configuration changes to the image or end-user involvement. Second, activation happens within the customer environment. after the service is activated, all communication stays inside the organization. None of the KMS clients will ever connect to Microsoft to activate. MaK is best suited to a smaller set of systems, individual stand-alone machines, or those that are disconnected from the corporate network. It is very similar to retail activation and can be configured as part of system provisioning, making it transparent to the end user as well.

KMS activates computers on a local network, eliminating the need for individual computers to connect to Microsoft . To do this, KMS uses a client server topology . KMS clients can locate KMS hosts by using Domain Name System (DNS) or a static configuration . KMS clients contact the KMS host by using Remote Procedure Call (RPC) . KMS can be hosted on computers running the Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, or Windows Server 2003 operating systems .

If you are planning to use KMS activation, the network must meet or exceed the activation threshold (the minimum number of qualifying computers that KMS requires) . IT professionals must also understand how the KMS host tracks the number of computers on the network .

KMS can activate both physical computers and virtual machines (VMs) . To qualify for KMS activation, a network must have a minimum number of qualifying computers, called the activation threshold. KMS hosts activate clients only after meeting this threshold . To ensure that the activation threshold is met, a KMS host counts the number of computers requesting activation on the network . The Windows Server operating systems (starting with Windows Server 2008) and Windows client operating systems (starting with Windows Vista) are activated after meeting different thresholds . The Windows Server activation threshold is 5 computers, and the Windows client activation threshold is 25 computers . The threshold includes Windows client and server operating systems running on physical computers or VMs . A KMS host responds to each valid activation request from a KMS client with the count of how many computers have contacted the KMS host for activation . Clients that receive a count below their activation threshold are not activated . For example, if the first two computers that contact the KMS host are running Windows 7, the first receives an activation count of 1, and the second receives an activation count of 2 . If the next computer is a Windows 7 VM, it receives an activation count of 3, and so on . None of these computers is activated because computers running Windows 7 must receive an activation count greater than or equal to 25 to be activated . KMS clients in the grace state that are not activated because the activation count is too low will connect to the KMS host every two hours to get the current activation count and will be activated when the threshold is met . If the next computer that contacts the KMS host is running Windows Server 2008 R2, it receives an activation count of 4, because activation counts are a combination of computers running Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 . If a computer running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 receives an activation count that is greater than or equal to 5, it is activated . If a computer running Windows 7 receives an activation count greater than or equal to 25, it is activated .