{"id":1519,"date":"2021-05-25T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2021-05-25T09:00:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:00:48","slug":"kms-and-windows-activation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/2021\/05\/kms-and-windows-activation\/","title":{"rendered":"KMS and Windows Activation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been a while since I was in a role that required me to worry about Windows activation’s, but yet here I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

User entered a ticket saying they had < 30 days remaining on their Windows activation and to contact their sys admin team for support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Running the following commands without the prepend “cscript” will show the active user interface a vbscript popup. Since I like to perform my actions behind the scenes, cscript allows me to have a remote command prompt with no user interaction required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check current settings<\/h3>

cscript slmgr.vbs -dli<\/p><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Change KMS Server<\/h3>

cscript slmgr.vbs -skms dnsnameofyourserverhere.tld<\/p><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Activate<\/h3>

cscript slmgr.vbs -ato<\/p><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s been a while since I was in a role that required me to worry about Windows activation’s, but yet here I am. User entered a ticket saying they had < 30 days remaining on their Windows activation and to contact their sys admin team for support. Running the following commands without the prepend “cscript” … Continue reading KMS and Windows Activation<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}