I've been testing WinVista Enterprise over the past few months and been reading up on the license schemes. It seems to me that for a medium-large corporate environment, a combination of KMS activation (for machines that regularly connect to corporate LAN) and MAK activation (for field site machines/laptops that could be off the network for a while) would be the most logical approach.

With that being said, is there a way, post-image (I've seen mention of a vb script), to force the machine to use one or the other? We have an enterprise agreement with MS so our Vista Enterprise DVD does not prompt for a key code during installation. I wasn't sure if the activation is something that needs to be set prior to image capture. The ideal situation would be to maintain a single "production" image that could be used with either activation scheme depending on the purpose of the machine.

Thanks

You could create separate builds of the same machines by capturing your OS twice with different .wim names and descriptions.

then, when creating your builds, assign mak to offsite machine builds and kms to onsite machine builds.

You can capture the same sysprepped machine a bajillion times, just dont reboot and stay in the WinPE invironment.

that's how i'm doing it.

again, i am just some dork rolling my face across a keyboard, so do any and all suggestions i make at your own risk.

hope this helps.