• Can Windows Update status mess up your Windows activation?

    Posted on September 7, 2016 at 12:28 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Just got this from Leo the Lion…

    “I have an installation that had both Windows update and BITS disabled. After 9 months or so, I got an activation notice and Windows wouldn’t activate until I enabled these services again. So Windows 10 is using something like KMS activation which requires a periodic contact with MS servers to maintain though specific services. Not good, in previous versions except for the enterprise version using KMS activation, activation was permanent and required no further contact with MS to maintain.”

    I know what KMS is –  it applies to volume licensing. If Microsoft  is enforcing ‘something  like KMS’  on W10 if a user disables WU and BITs, it should raise alarm bells because the MS strategy is to have all MS OS’s comply to a single model under Windows as a Service. That model is the W10 Model.

    With the introduction of the the October 2016 Update Policy for W7/8 many users are interested in Group B. Like us, we will be disabling WU and BITs. I would be shocked if we received an activation notice on W7/8 systems after having chosen this route.  All but one of our systems have OEM W7 licenses (only one is retail).  Reactivating an OEM license is the pits.

    I can’t find any details on the problem – or its solution. Anybody out there have any ideas? Links?

     

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