Hi, I want to know if there is Multiple activation key available for Ultimate as well ( windows 7)

Hi Rusty, MAK Keys are only used in Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Professional. To know all information about MAK Keys, please visit the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/existing-customers/product-activation-faq.aspx Microsoft Active Professional 2010

Hi Rusty, MAK Keys are only used in Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Professional. To know all information about MAK Keys, please visit the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/existing-customers/product-activation-faq.aspx Microsoft Active Professional 2010 I did not find any information in that link about Windows 7 Ultimate. Aren't Technet keys MAKs?

I did not find any information in that link about Windows 7 Ultimate. Aren't Technet keys MAKs? Haven't you read the answer from Francisco Martin Garcia ? Only Prof and Enterprise can be activated with MAK keys. Technet keys are retails keys, but the have a special key region (XXX-067 -XXXX) to identify such key."A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

I did not find any information in that link about Windows 7 Ultimate. Aren't Technet keys MAKs? Haven't you read the answer from Francisco Martin Garcia ? Only Prof and Enterprise can be activated with MAK keys. Technet keys are retails keys, but the have a special key region (XXX-067 -XXXX) to identify such key. "A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/ Obviously I read his reply. His link to "all information" about MAKs does not appear to confirm the statement he made. Nor yours. You seem to be saying that Technet Ultimate keys are not MAKs. They are just "special" multiple-activation-keys? Please explain the difference. Also consider Family 3-Packs (which activate with a single key). These again are just "special" multiple-activation-keys but not MAKs? The OP's exact wording was "I want to know if there is Multiple activation key available for Ultimate as well ( windows 7)". I provided what I believe is an example of exactly that. If you wanted to explain some technical difference between MAK and Multiple-Access-Key, I do not see that you accomplished it. Certainly, you did not need to assault my post with your argumentative reply, Andre.Ziegler.

Helo bungho, Windows Ultimate does not have an Volume Licensing key, so there would not be any MAK keys for Windows UltimateThanks, Darrell Gorter This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. VAMT - Volume Activation Management Tool - Download link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ec7156d2-2864-49ee-bfcb-777b898ad582&displaylang=en

Helo bungho, Windows Ultimate does not have an Volume Licensing key, so there would not be any MAK keys for Windows Ultimate Thanks, Darrell Gorter This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. VAMT - Volume Activation Management Tool - Download link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ec7156d2-2864-49ee-bfcb-777b898ad582&displaylang=en Thank you for that explanation. However, I did not see any mention of "Volume Licensing key" in the original post. Do you? The original post said "I want to know if there is Multiple activation key available for Ultimate as well ( windows 7)" I see Carey Frisch has marked your post as Answer, between our conversation, Darrell. Carey, do you see any mention of "Volume Licensing key" in the original post? Don't you see how underhanded that was? Why didn't you wait for the OP (Rusty_v) to reply? Sanmartin has recently begun a thread on this kind of thing. I will contribute to it. Darrell, will you kindly clarify if a Technet Ultimate key a Multiple activation key? I cannot get a straight answer here about that. Thank you.

do you see any mention of "Volume Licensing key" in the original post? Don't you see how underhanded that was? Everyone sees it. Multiple activation key (MAK) = a way of Volume Licensing. So, the question is answered and marked correctly."A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

Hello Bungho, Sorry I wasn't clear, MAK keys are volume licensing keys. TechNet when distributing MAK keys is distributing volume licensing keys, even though they come from TechNet, they are volume license keys. MAK keys only exist as volume licensing keys, since Windows Ultimate does not have any volume Licensing keys, there are no MAK keys for Windows Ultimate so TechNet has no Windows Ultimate MAK keys.Thanks, Darrell Gorter This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. VAMT - Volume Activation Management Tool - Download link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ec7156d2-2864-49ee-bfcb-777b898ad582&displaylang=en

do you see any mention of "Volume Licensing key" in the original post? Don't you see how underhanded that was? Everyone sees it. Multiple activation key (MAK) = a way of Volume Licensing. So, the question is answered and marked correctly. "A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/ How about a straight answer, Andre. Is a Technet Ultimate key a Multiple activation key? Is a Family 3-Pack key a Multiple activation key?

Hello Bungho, Sorry I wasn't clear, MAK keys are volume licensing keys. TechNet when distributing MAK keys is distributing volume licensing keys, even though they come from TechNet, they are volume license keys. MAK keys only exist as volume licensing keys, since Windows Ultimate does not have any volume Licensing keys, there are no MAK keys for Windows Ultimate so TechNet has no Windows Ultimate MAK keys. Thanks, Darrell Gorter This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. VAMT - Volume Activation Management Tool - Download link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ec7156d2-2864-49ee-bfcb-777b898ad582&displaylang=en I am more confused than ever, Darrell. Aren't these Technet Windows 7 Ultimate keys "Multiple activation keys" ? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/default.aspx

Hello bungho, I don't have access to the keys on that site, but there are not Multiple Activation Keys ( MAK keys) for Windows 7 or Windows Vista, this is probably a terminolgy issue more than anything else. MAK (Multiple Activation Keys) are volume license only and only apply to Windows 7 Professional and Enterprise or Windows Vista Professional and Enterprise. They do not exist for the other editions. Open an elevated CMD prompt and run slmgr /dlv, the description line will tell you whether the key is MAK or not. If you have one of those keys installed on your machine with Windows Ultimate, what is on your description line? The TechNet Windows 7 Ultimate keys should be reported as Retail if you open an elevated CMD promtp and run SLMGR /dlv, this is not to say they cannot activate more than one machine, however those keys are defined as retail, not as MAK keys. MAK keys would behave with Volume license error codes and responses, rather than retail error codes and responses.Thanks, Darrell Gorter This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. VAMT - Volume Activation Management Tool - Download link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ec7156d2-2864-49ee-bfcb-777b898ad582&displaylang=en

Thanks for taking the time to try to explain. I agree it's a matter of terminology. You are saying a key which can Activate Multiple copies is not actually a Multiple Activation key. Take a look at posts like these to see how confusing that is. Nobody can get any info except by word-of-mouth. All the same, I still do not see that the OP was necessarily discussing Volume Licensing. Nor was I dusputing Francisco's reply which assumed that. I was however questioning his source of information. My first two-sentence post was simply inquiring about Multiple Activation keys. Or Activate Multiple keys. However you might say it. There was absolutely no reason for the disrespectful treatment from the two other participants which followed. (Not you, Darrell). Except it demonstrated a certain camaraderie on this site which frankly I think should be reviewed by Microsoft personnel.

As a sidenote, this MS doc includes a brief discussion about Volume License Installations which identifies Microsoft® Activation Keys (MAK).