![]() ![]() One option is to email them at However I did try this and got no response, waited a week, still nothing. Looking on the FAQ section of the ‘Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center’ there is an answer:Īpparently “KMS keys are no longer pre-assigned to Open agreements as use of MAK (Multiple Activation Key) keys is the preferred method for activation.” Which is fine in an ideal world but KMS keys are very handy and do save a lot of time.īut all is not lost, if you do need one or more KMS keys you can contact Microsoft and they will generate them for you. Meaning that we can end up burning through MAK activations pretty fast.Īfter doing a bit of looking around I found a post mention that not too long ago Microsoft changed who they dish KMS keys out to automatically. This is a bit of an issue as though activating clients using MAK keys isn’t a problem we do end up re-imaging our devices fairly often. However under our new licence agreement we didn’t have any KMS keys, only MAK. They have always been listed under the product alongside our MAK keys on the ‘Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center’. Up until the recent renewal I have not had an issue finding our KMS keys. However, we use the odd MAK key here and there if we have a business device that’s going to spend most of its life offsite (so won’t be able to access the KMS server so will fallout of activation). ![]() In our environment we generally use a KMS server as our means of activating our Windows and Office clients. Year on year our Microsoft volume licensing subscription gets renewed and I have very little issue. ![]()
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