This can be done via the GUI or by executing the following command from an elevated command prompt: Reboot the machine – note you can restart the Software Licensing service but I preferred to reboot it (seeing as the server was not in use for anything else).Under Inbound Rules scroll down to “Key Management Service (TCP-In)”, right click and select enable.Open “Windows Firewall with Advanced Security” via Start menu -> Administrative Tools.Type slmgr /ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx where the last section is the Key from your volume licensing website.Log onto and fetch your key: “Win Srv 2008 R2 Data Ctr/Itan KMS C” – Note your key may be similar, but either way it must end in either KMS B, or KMS C.We determined that due to the number of client activations, and the capacity of our infrastructure we had no problems installing this server on our secondary domain controller. Installing first KMS Serve rīelow are the steps I used to install the KMS server. These steps will only include the installation of 1 KMS server. In light of this I will write the steps I used to configure the first KMS server in our organisation for use with Windows Server, Windows client and Microsoft Office activation.
Well I have had the pleasure of setting up a KMS server in our environment, and found that the documentation from Microsoft is somewhat confusing.
