We have a VMWare infrastruture, upon which we host amongst other things 21 x application terminal servers. I have a base image from which I deploy all of these servers. There are numerous applications/changes we make on a reasonably regular basis, so I delete all the servers and re-deploy via the template/base image. This uses several VMWare custom specifications to join them to the domain, change the hostname, create a new SID (in essence a full sysprep) etc, etc. This all works great. However I've just come across a problem after deploying them again whereby the machines would not activate against our KMS server. We have the KMS service installed on a 2008 DC with one of our 2k8 KMS keys attached. I think i've found the problem in that KMS activates up to 10 times on six different computers. We must have just exceeded that. I guess I can call M$ and have them increase this limit - but it is obv. going to be a repetitive issue, unless I am doing something wrong, or there is an alternative way around this? Thanks Steve

I guess I can call M$ and have them increase this limit - but it is obv. going to be a repetitive issue, unless I am doing something wrong, or there is an alternative way around this? Hi, sorry but there isn't an alternative way. Bye.Edoardo Benussi - Microsoft MVP Management Infrastructure - Systems Administration https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/Profile/Benussi Windows Server Italian Forum Moderator edo[at]mvps[dot]org