If a pc cannot find the KMS by itself (this will happen for technical causes), you can inform it the name of the license server manually after which activate it manually. How this works is explained right here.
Please be aware: After successful activation, Windows will usually contact the KMS to renew the activation, supplied the computer is linked to the network of the College of Mainz. Activation has a maximum time period of 180 days. After six months at the most recent, the computer must be reconnected to the campus network for the activation to be renewed.
If this isn’t attainable in particular cases, please contact us.
Open an administrative command immediate
The KMS is announced within a command immediate (previously additionally called MS-DOS prompt). It needs to be famous that the command immediate should be opened as an administrative command prompt, in any other case the rights is not going to be ample!
To do this, proceed as follows:
Below Home windows 8.1 or Home windows 10
– Proper-click the Windows logo at the bottom left. – Then click “Command Immediate (Administrator)”. – Enter the administrator’s username and password, or click on Sure in case your present person has administrative privileges.
Inform the pc of the key Management Server (KMS).
Enter the command slmgr -skms kms.zdv.uni-mainz.de in the command immediate and complete with return:
After a short while, the success ought to be reported in a separate window that opens:
Activate Home windows
Now the computer is aware of the key Administration Server (KMS) and you can start the activation. Enter the command slmgr -ato in the command immediate and end the entry with return.
After a while (please wait a bit), the success is reported in a separate window:
Ready!
Activation completed efficiently.
You possibly can verify activation at any time by typing slmgr -dli in the command prompt.