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KMS activation without DNS server configuration

Tomáš Hájek 20 Reputation points
2024-10-27T15:34:01.01+00:00

Hello everyone!

I have asked and received a solution to my problem I have yet to try in the Microsoft Community part of the site earlier, but I was recommended to ask over here as well.

I'm working in an environment consisting of about 30 client computers, and I'd like to deploy a custom Windows 10 image on them and activate them using the Key Management Service (KMS). The environment does not use Active Directory, and has no running DNS server computer configured, so I'd like to set up a KMS host on another client computer running Windows 10.

Is it possible for me to manually assign the KMS host to the clients using the "slmgr.vbs -skms" command and the KMS host's static IP address, i.e. "slmgr.vbs -skms 192.168.0.11", and activate them using a regular LAN internet connection without the need of setting up a new DNS server?

Thank you!

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  1. Darrell Gorter 2,131 Reputation points
    2024-10-27T22:00:30.71+00:00

    Hello,

    Yes that would work correctly. The KMS client will try value instead of the querying DNS for the KMS host.

    Darrell

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