Home windows 10 / Workplace 2016 – KMS Activation
Required Windows Server Updates
The next update is required for Windows 10 activation:
– Home windows Server 2012 R2 / KB3173424 – https://assist.microsoft.com/kb/3173424
– Home windows Server 2012 / KB3173426 – https://assist.microsoft.com/kb/3173426
The next update is required for Office 2016 activation:
– Microsoft Office 2016 Volume License Pack – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/obtain/details.aspx?id=49164&751be11f-ede8-5a0c-058c-2ee190a24fa6
Home windows 10 / Server 2016 requires not less than a KMS server based on Windows Server 2012. Activation through Windows Server 2008 R2 isn’t potential!
Activation by Command Line
Step 1
For Home windows 10 LTSB 1607 the Licence key “Windows Server 2016 Datacenter” is valid.
Step 2
Display the installation ID that is important for phone activation.
Step 3
Activate your KMS key by calling Microsoft hotline for product actiavtion and enter your “Instllation ID” by phone. You’ll obtain a “Confirmation ID” that have to be entered by the next command.
If the activation ID isn’t accepted you will receive the error 0xC004F04D. Retry the telephone activation normally you simply entered a unsuitable set up ID. I had that issues several times… Sometimes the hotline is telling you a mistaken “Confirmation ID” or answers you in languages you could have by no means heard about. Your solely chane is to open a MS ticket to resolve the problem. I’ve tried to solve problems like these with the activiation hotline but most of the guys are usually not conversant in the Home windows activation.
slmgr.vbs /dli
Step 4 – Workplace 2016
Sort the following command to integrate your quantity license key to the KMS server.
If the important thing isn’t accepted by the server you’ll receive the error 0xC004F015.
Step 5 – Workplace 2016
Display the installation ID that is necessary for telephone activation. You’ve so as to add “98EBFE73-2084-4C97-932C-C0CD1643BEA7” to receive the Workplace 2016 installation id in any other case you will receive the set up ID for Windows Server 2016 / Home windows 10.
Step 6 – Office 2016
Activate your KMS key by calling Microsoft hotline for product actiavtion and enter your “Instllation ID” by phone. You will receive a “Confirmation ID” that have to be entered by the next command. You may have so as to add ” 98EBFE73-2084-4C97-932C-C0CD1643BEA7” for Office 2016 activation otherwise you’ll try to activate Home windows Server 2016 / Home windows 10 with an Workplace “Confirmation ID”.
slmgr.vbs /dli 98EBFE73-2084-4C97-932C-C0CD1643BEA7
Configure DNS
When the KMS configuration half is done you have got to inform your Windows shoppers the place to seek out the KMS host system. Due to this fact I recommend to arrange a “SRV Resource Record” in your DNS as it is explained intimately at MS Technet: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff793405.aspx
There are additionally methods to configure a static entry in your Home windows 10 OS deployment or Workplace 2016 deployment. But when your setting receives a change for instance the hostname of your KMS or you need to exchange your KMS server by another one you’ll get in hassle fixing all that static hyperlinks. I’ve seen lots of consumers setting up static links to the KMS server which was easy to configure for the undertaking first, activate microsoft office 2016 using cmd but for the operations staff it was a mess.
In most corporations the DNS record can be created by the “Network Team”. So how can we make sure that these guys have executed their work? Simply type the following command on any Windows 10 client that is member of your area.
Result
As you possibly can see in this example there are two KMS servers out there.
Widespread Errors
Error 0xC004F015
When you receive the error 0xC004F015 your entered key is invalid and can not be used by the KMS server. Examine if all neccessarry updates were put in!
Error 0xc004f038
This error occures when not sufficient shoppers are registered at the KMS server yet. The KMS Server will begin activating purchasers successfull when he receives 20 requests from completely different machines.