There are two types of product key for Windows & Office:<\/p>\n
MAK is nice and simple, if you\u2019re only deploying a handful of machines. But if you need to deploy dozens, hundreds or thousands, of machines, are you going to (a) trust the end user to activate (God help you if you think that\u2019ll work!) or (b) run around and activate stuff by hand (why put in a deployment system because you\u2019re obviously training for a marathon).<\/p>\n
Some examples:<\/p>\n
MAK just isn\u2019t going to work. With a KMS server on your network then you can automate the activation process of Windows and Office on the network. The products reach out to KMS and activate without human effort.<\/p>\n
Two posts will be useful:<\/p>\n
There are two types of product key for Windows & Office: MAK: The one that you\u2019re used to typing into a machine KMS: A special enter-it-once-for-the-network product key MAK is nice and simple, if you\u2019re only deploying a handful of machines. But if you need to deploy dozens, hundreds or thousands, of machines, are you … Continue reading “The Importance Of KMS Product Keys & Activation To Deployment, VDI, & Cloud Computing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[174,183,109,118],"class_list":["post-13343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-server","tag-deployment","tag-licensing","tag-windows-8","tag-windows-server-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t