I saw a nice howto about activation win 7/10 through ad, i’ve not tested it but
it may give more options.
i’ll look it up tomorrow when im at the office.
greetz,
Louis
> Op 24 jul. 2018 om 19:16 heeft Christian Naumer via samba <samba at
lists.samba.org> het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Am 24.07.2018 um 18:34 schrieb Thomas Glanzmann:
>> Hello Christian,
>>
>>> what I meant is not acting as a KMS server but something new
Microsoft
>>> introduced. In windows 10 the tool vor managing Volume Licences
asks if
>>> you have a KMS server or if you want to use AD for activating the
>>> software. I haven't tried it yet as I would need to setup a
test
>>> environment.
>>> So I asked here to see if somebody tried it before. I can test this
with
>>> samba but I don't have a Windows AD so can not help there.
>>
>> from my understanding is. You have a KMS server on the network. You set
>> a DNS record. Than Windows tries to connect to the KMS server and
>> activates itself. If you miss that DNS record, you can do it manually:
>>
>> Here is an example request:
>>
>> 18:13:08.769942 IP 10.101.226.235.56381 > 10.101.0.1.53: 54581+ SRV?
_VLMCS._TCP.gmvl.de. (37)
>>
>> Here is how you do it manually:
>>
>> slmgr -skms <kmsserver>
>> slmgr -ato
> We have a KMS running and it is working fine. However, we don't want to
> replace this server when 2008R2 is dropped from support. So we are
> looking for alternatives that do not require Windows servers
>
> I mean this here:
>
>
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askpfeplat/2013/02/04/active-directory-based-activation-vs-key-management-services/
>
> So there is a Schema update needed for it to work. I thought this might
> be possible with samba.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Christian
>
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