Planning an Activation Infrastructure

You can use this section to help plan the activation infrastructure. Using the knowledge of how each activation method works and knowing the limitations of each are important parts of the planning process. The next step is to understand how you can apply volume activation to the environment.

Analyzing Activation Options

Certain activation options make more sense than others do when the patterns of network connectivity and system usage are analyzed. Computers that are out of the office for months at a time will not be able to use KMS activation, and MAK activation may be unnecessarily complex for environments in which 400 static desktops could be activated using a single KMS computer.

Network Connectivity

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