Change vDisk from MAK to KMS

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After the device is shutdown, again change the vDisk properties and set the Microsoft Volume Licensing from “none” to “KMS” and change the access mode from private to standard.

Licensing KMSStandard Mode

Now check if Windows is activated using KMS. To view if KMS is used start an elevated command prompt and run the following command:

cscript slmgr.vbs /dli

The Command prompt now lets you see that it’s using KMS.

SLMGR dli

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  1. Angelo says:

    Hello Sjoerd, great article.
    We have in us environment 3 Citrix servers and one PVS 5.6.
    We activated the servers over the PVS console and we use the MS MAK license.
    My problem that I don’t understate how good how I can update the disk and keep the activation, without to remove the disk?
    Do you any suggestions?

    Thanks in advance for your efforts
    Angelo

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  3. Angelo says:

    Hello Sjoerd,
    My question/problem is, how can I update the disk without loss the MAK action on the servers?

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  4. Angelo says:

    Hi Sjoerd,
    This works well, but my question is over the update, when I install a new application.
    What is the best praxis to prevent to lose the MAK Activation?
    How do you handle this?

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    • Sjoerd van den Nieuwenhof says:

      Hi Angelo,
      I use a separate VM named XA-Main (for Maintenance) which is use to update the vDisk. When you don’t have this, you have to use a production machine to update the vdisk, but that will leave you with just 2 servers. When this is enough for the load it’s possible.

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      • Angelo says:

        Hi Sjoerd,

        This is my problem, I don’t have a virtual separate server, I need to update the vDisk on the production server and there, how can I do this?

        I know that when I remove the actual vDisk, I will lose the MAK activation, on this Server.

        I have read the Citrix document CTX129105, but I’m still not sure which steps should be done if I update the vDisk on the same system without use another server.

        My actual procedure:

        Copy the original vDisk

        Rename the name from the vDisk

        Add to the copied vDisk to the DB

        Change vDisk versions numbers

        After them I don’t know with which steps I should go further??

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