Windows 10: Windows 10 activated by KMS server and resold to public....

Pretty sure I know the answer to this question, but I'd like to verify it before I make an accusation to a refurb reseller. Wife bought a nice Dell E6430 laptop, it came with Win 10 installed, but also had KMSPico installed. As I understand it, KMS/MAK activation is intended for institutional use, and as a method of activation for VLK's, is not for resale to the general public, as the hardware it is on has changed ownership to a 3rd party. Addtionally, when I run SLMGR -DLI, I get this:





Obviously, this is not a retail OR an OEM copy. I don't believe this is legal, and want to confirm that. Plus, I don't want this KMSPico software on there to have to activate this software every 180 days. Can you confirm my suspicions?

:)

 

Windows 10 Activation (Insider)

Yeah they blacklisted the insider keys at RTM, so u need to activate it again. They're using KMS server activation, so there's only handful of keys.

If you don't have any luck I can show another quicker method...lol

 

Windows 10 Activation using KMS server

Did you reimage the machines with a volume license copy of Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise volume license clients in order to reach the KMS? I am not aware of OEM licenses ever being activated by a KMS server. In fact, OEM Windows 8.1 Pro licenses would first
have to reimaged with a volume license image first.

 

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!