Tag: Product key

• A Quick Tip for Hyper-V Users: Product Keys

  I keep telling people that the best way to activate your servers and desktops is to have a Key Management Server (KMS) in your environment.  However not everyone has volume license keys, and when an IT Pro (or Dev) builds a lot of lab environments using their TechNet, MSDN, or MAPS licenses that is not…

  Mitch Garvis

  January 2, 2013

  Hyper-V, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012

  Hyper-V, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Product key, Virtual machine

• Wrong Product Key? Oh No!

  Here’s a tip if you need to change your product key in Windows 8.  It also works in earlier versions of Windows, but those versions have easier ways of doing it.  In Windows 8 you need to use the Windows Software Licensing Management Tool (slmgr.vbs) Open a Command Prompt with elevated privileges (from the Windows…

  Mitch Garvis

  August 17, 2012

  Activation, licensing, Product Key, Windows 8

  Command Prompt, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Operating system, Product key, Windows, Windows 8