Windows 10: Question about kms activation

Hello,I had Windows 10 unactivated for a long time and a few days ago I decided to find a way to activate it. I found this video that told me to use this code in cmd prompt:slmgr.vbs /ipk *****-*****-*****-*****-*****slmgr.vbs /skms kms.lotro.ccslmgr.vbs /atoSo I used it and it activated fine. But then, I found out that it was not a legal way to activate windows, so I removed the license key with:slmgr /upkslmgr /cpkyslmgr /rearmI then decided to update to Windows 11 Pro and then purchased a Windows 11 Pro key legally through the Microsoft Store. I then activated it and now I legally own Windo

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Windows 7 activation with KMS

• https://www.ghacks.net/2019/01/11/microsoft-explains-the-windows-7-kms-activation-issue/
  
• Activation failures around January 8, 2019, on volume-licensed Windows 7 Service Pack 1 KMS clients - Windows Client

 

KMS Activation threshold

I am looking into setting up a KMS server vs using a MAK for a small (<100 clients) offline network of PCs with Win10 and Office 2016. I did a lot of web searching (Bing, obviously) but still have a few questions that I was not able to find answers to that
I was hoping someone could help with.

1. I know KMS has the 25 PC threshold before it will activate any, but what happens on the 26th activation request? Will the KMS server activate the 26th PC or does the threshold count start over and it will wait for 24 more activation requests?
2. After a re-image, I read that we can use the same MAK to activate Windows 10 using VAMT if we saved the .cilx file as long as there haven’t been any major hardware changes. Is this possible for Office 2016 as well? I haven’t been able to find any
   documentation on it.

Thank you!

 

KMS - General questions

Hello all,

I have a kms host (Server2012r2) in production currently activating Windows 10 and lower, Server 2012r2 and lower products; as well as Office 2016, 2013 and 2010.

Without getting into the background on my businesses EES agreement with microsoft, I'm wondering if it's possible to activate just workstation products (win 10 and below) while not activating server products on a server kms host. I understand this is possible
while using a win10 machine as kms host but I'd prefer to continue to use server2012r2 as kms host.

Also, the Office 15, OfficeKMSHostVL_KMS_Host key installed on our kms host is not only activating office 2013 pro plus, it's also activating Visio and Project. Is there a kms host key that will only activate office pro plus rather than activate Visio and
Project which we do not have an EES agreement for?

Thanks in advance!