How to do sysprep to make a image for my users and maintain the count

[motorwu]

Dear all,

We just build the KMS server on Windows 2003 and want to make

it can activate the Vista client. As Microsoft website said, we need

25 client connect to KMS to request activation then the KMS can

activate all clients.

We just a testing lab, so I just use one PC to format and

install Vista then activate it to increase the count. I don't want to

install and insatll 25 times to make KMS count to 25. So I sysprep

(sysprep /generalize)the Vista as Microsoft website said to change its

CMID.

After sysprep, I try to connect to KMS server to increase the

count, but it didn't increase, remain the same. I also try the slmgr

-rearm to reset the CMID, it doesn't work.

I can reformat again and install 25 times to increase count to

25. But after testing period, all our users will use the same vista

image (after sysprep), the KMS will fail after 30 days, because it

does not increase any more!

How to do sysprep to make a image for my users and maintain

the count on KMS server ? Thanks.

[fizban2]

Dear all,

We just build the KMS server on Windows 2003 and want to make

it can activate the Vista client. As Microsoft website said, we need

25 client connect to KMS to request activation then the KMS can

activate all clients.

We just a testing lab, so I just use one PC to format and

install Vista then activate it to increase the count. I don't want to

install and insatll 25 times to make KMS count to 25. So I sysprep

(sysprep /generalize)the Vista as Microsoft website said to change its

CMID.

After sysprep, I try to connect to KMS server to increase the

count, but it didn't increase, remain the same. I also try the slmgr

-rearm to reset the CMID, it doesn't work.

I can reformat again and install 25 times to increase count to

25. But after testing period, all our users will use the same vista

image (after sysprep), the KMS will fail after 30 days, because it

does not increase any more!

How to do sysprep to make a image for my users and maintain

the count on KMS server ? Thanks.

You need 25 unique computers connected at once to activate and use the KMS server, it does not just count vista computers that have activated with it. so you will need to get vista onto 25 computers

[motorwu]

Thanks your reply, the 25 minimum is ok for us, I can spend 2 day to

build up to 25 times of reformat and install Vista. But what we

concern is that when we deploy Vista and make a image for all users in

our office, the users Vista won't contriute count to KMS, then we

should maintain the count manually...

Dear all,

We just build the KMS server on Windows 2003 and want to make

it can activate the Vista client. As Microsoft website said, we need

25 client connect to KMS to request activation then the KMS can

activate all clients.

We just a testing lab, so I just use one PC to format and

install Vista then activate it to increase the count. I don't want to

install and insatll 25 times to make KMS count to 25. So I sysprep

(sysprep /generalize)the Vista as Microsoft website said to change its

CMID.

After sysprep, I try to connect to KMS server to increase the

count, but it didn't increase, remain the same. I also try the slmgr

-rearm to reset the CMID, it doesn't work.

I can reformat again and install 25 times to increase count to

25. But after testing period, all our users will use the same vista

image (after sysprep), the KMS will fail after 30 days, because it

does not increase any more!

How to do sysprep to make a image for my users and maintain

the count on KMS server ? Thanks.

You need 25 unique computers connected at once to activate and use the KMS server, it does not just count vista computers that have activated with it. so you will need to get vista onto 25 computers

Edited March 19, 2007 by motorwu