Chapter 11. Using Volume Activation

  • Introduction 335

  • Activation Options 336

  • Key Management Service 338

  • Multiple Activation Key 343

  • Volume Activation Scenarios 344

  • What If Systems Are Not Activated? 352

  • Product Keys 352

  • Summary 353

  • Additional Resources 353

Volume Activation is a configurable solution that helps IT professionals automate and manage the product activation process on computers running the Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems licensed under a Microsoft Volume Licensing program and other programs that provide Volume License editions of Microsoft Windows. This chapter describes Volume Activation for Windows 7.

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