I have several servers showing up in my KMS server as KMS HOST when they should show up as KMS CLIENT. Secondary to that issue is I also have 2 servers (win 2008 32bit std) that show up as KMS HOST with a license status of In OOB Grace. I have tried changing the product key, I found a post on the net somewhere that pointed me to using a VLK key from the install media in the sources folder from PID.txt however when i tried that key I got an error that said the key was not from the correct version of windows. I have tried removing the key with slmgr.vbs -upk and attempting to let the KMS server add the machine and license it. Nothing has worked. So can someone help me figure out how to fix the KMS HOST problem and also get these 2 servers activated? Any help is greatly appreciated

Hi, Please convert your KMS hosts to KMS clients: 1. Uninstall the KMS host key first by running the following command: slmgr –upk 2. Then install the default kms key by running the following command: slmgr /ipk [KMS Client Setup Key] 3. Delete the record from the DNS: Open DNS console: Expand _tcp node under the domain.com. There will be a record _VLMCS. Delete this record. Now The KMS server is uninstalled. 4. Then use the KMS client Setup keys to active your KMS clients: · KMS client keys: Operating system edition Product key Windows 7 Windows 7 Professional FJ82H-XT6CR-J8D7P-XQJJ2-GPDD4 Windows 7 Professional N MRPKT-YTG23-K7D7T-X2JMM-QY7MG Windows 7 Enterprise 33PXH-7Y6KF-2VJC9-XBBR8-HVTHH Windows 7 Enterprise N YDRBP-3D83W-TY26F-D46B2-XCKRJ Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 R2 HPC Edition FKJQ8-TMCVP-FRMR7-4WR42-3JCD7 Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter 74YFP-3QFB3-KQT8W-PMXWJ-7M648 Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 489J6-VHDMP-X63PK-3K798-CPX3Y Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-Based Systems GT63C-RJFQ3-4GMB6-BRFB9-CB83V Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard YC6KT-GKW9T-YTKYR-T4X34-R7VHC Windows Web Server 2008 R2 6TPJF-RBVHG-WBW2R-86QPH-6RTM4 Windows Vista Windows Vista Business YFKBB-PQJJV-G996G-VWGXY-2V3X8 Windows Vista Business N HMBQG-8H2RH-C77VX-27R82-VMQBT Windows Vista Enterprise VKK3X-68KWM-X2YGT-QR4M6-4BWMV Windows Vista Enterprise N VTC42-BM838-43QHV-84HX6-XJXKV Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 Datacenter 7M67G-PC374-GR742-YH8V4-TCBY3 Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V 22XQ2-VRXRG-P8D42-K34TD-G3QQC Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems 4DWFP-JF3DJ-B7DTH-78FJB-PDRHK Windows Server 2008 Enterprise YQGMW-MPWTJ-34KDK-48M3W-X4Q6V Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V 39BXF-X8Q23-P2WWT-38T2F-G3FPG Windows Server 2008 Standard TM24T-X9RMF-VWXK6-X8JC9-BFGM2 Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V W7VD6-7JFBR-RX26B-YKQ3Y-6FFFJ Windows Web Server 2008 WYR28-R7TFJ-3X2YQ-YCY4H-M249D For the second issue, I suggest contacting Microsoft Activation Centers for direct assistance: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/existing-customers/activation-centers.aspx Hope it helps. Tim Quan - MSFT

the second issue was resolved by your response to the first issue. Thanks a bunch. The issue basically boiled down to we did not have the list of VLK keys and were using the wrong key to setup servers with. Thanks to your post, I got everything resolved.