Hello everyone! My name is Mike Kammer, and I have been a Platforms PFE with Microsoft for just over two years now. I recently helped a customer with deploying Windows Server 2016 in their environment. We took this opportunity to also migrate their activation methodology from a KMS Server to Active Directory Based Activation.
So what does that RETAIL channel mean then? Well, it means the media that was used to install the operating system was an MSDN ISO. I went back to my customer and asked if, by some chance, there was a second Windows Server 2016 ISO floating around the network. Turns out that yes, there was another ISO on the network, and it had been used to create the other dozen machines. They compared the two ISOs and sure enough the one that was given to me to build the virtual servers was, in fact, an MSDN ISO. They removed that MSDN ISO from their network and now we have all our existing servers activated and no more worries about the activation failing on future builds.
X-force Showcase 2016 Activation
The KMS server was first introduced with Windows Vista as an easy activation service for IT pros. Since then, each new release of Windows and Office provided a necessary update to KMS server, in order to keep offering activation keys to Windows and Office clients. The release of Windows 10 KMS activation and Office 2016 activation is no different then previous versions.
Corporate customers can activate Office products within the corporate network by using the local KMS server without connecting to Microsoft activation servers on the Internet. Earlier we have already considered the peculiarities of KMS activation of MS Office 2013, and the main principles and approaches to the MS Office 2021, 2019, and 2016 activation on a KMS server remained unchanged.
Office 2021/2019/2016 Active Directory-Based Activation (ADBA)If you are going to use ADBA for the automatic activation of Office 2021/2019/2016 on AD-joined computers, select Active Directory-Based Activation as a volume activation method in Volume Activation Tools. This activation method works for Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012R2 and Windows 11/10/8.1.
KMS clients connect to a KMS server, also called the KMS host, on the network for activation. A KMS host can be a VM or physical machine. To activate a computer running Windows Server 2019, the KMS host must use one of the following OSes: Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016 or Windows Server 2019.
In order to check the activation status of your Office 365/2019/2016 install, you need to execute two small commands in Command Prompt. Complete the given below directions to know the activation status of Microsoft Office 2016/2019/365 on Windows. 2ff7e9595c
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