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Your company has an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain that runs at the Windows Server 2008 R2 functional level. All servers run Windows Server 2008 R2. All client computers run Windows…
The correct answer is A. Deploy five more virtual desktops. KMS Activation Thresholds KMS can activate both physical computers and virtual machines. To qualify for KMS activation, a network must meet the activation threshold: KMS hosts activate client computers only after meeting this threshold. To ensure that the activation threshold…
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Your company has an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain that runs at the Windows Server 2008 R2 functional level. All servers run Windows Server 2008 R2. All client computers run Windows XP Professional. You use the Key Management Service (KMS) to manage your volume license activations. All servers have been activated by using KMS. You deploy 20 Windows 7 virtual desktops. The virtual desktop operating systems do not activate. You need to ensure that the virtual desktops activate by using KMS. What should you do?
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- ADeploy five more virtual desktops.
- BRun slmgr.vbs with the -ato parameter.
- CUse the Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT).
- DRaise the domain functions level to Windows Server 2008 R2.
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KMS Activation Thresholds KMS can activate both physical computers and virtual machines. To qualify for KMS activation, a network must meet the activation threshold: KMS hosts activate client computers only after meeting this threshold. To ensure that the activation threshold is met, a KMS host counts the number of computers that are requesting activation on the network. For computers running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2, the activation threshold is five. For computers running Windows Vista or Windows 7, the activation threshold is 25. The thresholds include client computers and servers that are running on physical computers or virtual machines. A KMS host responds to each valid activation request from a KMS client with the count of how many computers have contacted the KMS host for activation. Clients that receive a count below their activation threshold are not activated. For example, if the first two computers that contact the KMS host are running Windows 7, the first receives an activation count of 1, and the second receives an activation count of 2. If the next computer is a Windows 7 virtual machine, it receives an activation count of 3, and so on. None of these computers is activated, because computers running Windows 7 must receive an activation count 25 to be activated. KMS clients in the grace state that are not activated because the activation count is too low connect to the KMS host every two hours to get the current activation count and will be activated when the threshold is met.
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