Question about Enterprise Edition MAK

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Sascha Benjamin Jazbec

Today Windows Vista Enterprise appeared as Download on my technet portal and
Microsoft gave me a Volume Key Type "MAK", saying it is good for 15
Activations.

As I intend to only install this once on a second partition ( Vista Business
Retail already installed ) just a quick question -

MAK is against MS Servers, correct ( no need for KMS ) ?
Does this mean I can install this on 15 PCs then or 15 times do a
reinstallation on 1PC ?

my other technet Keys Retail for Vista,XP and Office say 10 PCs at the same
time - where a reformat of a single PC would not substract one of the 10
counts.

This now clearly says "Volume Activation", so just to make sure.

Thx

SJ /germany
 
Hi Sascha,
MAK is against MS Servers, correct ( no need for KMS ) ?
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Yes, a MAK activation is against MS servers and there is no need for KMS
(which requires a minimum of 25 installations anyways).
Does this mean I can install this on 15 PCs then or 15 times do a
reinstallation on 1PC ?
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The former.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
MAK is against MS Servers, correct ( no need for KMS ) ?
Does this mean I can install this on 15 PCs then or 15 times do a
reinstallation on 1PC ?
Click to expand...

You can activate using that key 15 times. Unlike the retail Technet keys,
the activation count available will decrement, even if you install it on
the same PC.

Adam
 
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