{"id":1012,"date":"2008-03-07T09:24:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T09:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/windows-server-2008-product-activation-for-volume-license-customers.htm"},"modified":"2008-03-07T09:38:03","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T09:38:03","slug":"windows-server-2008-product-activation-for-volume-license-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/windows-server-2008-product-activation-for-volume-license-customers.htm","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server 2008 product activation for volume license customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Windows Vista was launched, I wrote a post about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/windows-vista-product-activation-for.htm\">volume activation (VA) 2.0 activation process<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/jamesone\/archive\/2007\/12\/09\/vista-sp1-to-drop-reduced-functionality-mode.aspx\">With Vista SP1, reduced functionality mode has been removed<\/a> although there is still the same legal obligation to run properly-licensed copies of Windows. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/features\/2007\/dec07\/12-03wga.mspx\">Microsoft has published a Q and A sheet on the changes made to their anti-piracy programme<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>A number of people have asked where they can get a 180-day evaluation copy of Windows Server 2008 and, as far as I&#8217;m aware, there isn&#8217;t one.  Instead, it is possible to install the product and it will attempt online activation (there is no longer an option in setup to deselect this).  If activation fails, then a 60-day grace period will commence, during which the product will have full functionality and can be activated at any time, using a key management server (KMS) if one is available, or alternatively by entering the multiple activation key (MAK) in the system properties.  Re-arming is also available, allowing 3 re-arms (so up to 240 days total use before activation).  That should be more than enough time for evaluation and further details are available in <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/948472\">Microsoft knowledge base article 948472<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Windows Vista was launched, I wrote a post about the volume activation (VA) 2.0 activation process. With Vista SP1, reduced functionality mode has been removed although there is still the same legal obligation to run properly-licensed copies of Windows. (Microsoft has published a Q and A sheet on the changes made to their anti-piracy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/windows-server-2008-product-activation-for-volume-license-customers.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows Server 2008 product activation for volume license customers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[104,59],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-windows-server-2008","tag-software-licensing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Windows Server 2008 product activation for volume license customers - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/03\/windows-server-2008-product-activation-for-volume-license-customers.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Windows Server 2008 product activation for volume license customers - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When Windows Vista was launched, I wrote a post about the volume activation (VA) 2.0 activation process. 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