These two commands will show you detailed information about your KMS host machine such as the number of failed/successful activations as well as client counts. Opening an elevated command prompt window on your host machine you can use the following: You can also use some other commands on the KMS host to ensure that it is working correctly and accepting clients and activating them. From here you can try and ping the machine using the above DNS entry. It will look up the DNS record which the Software Licensing service checks to contact a KMS host. Replacing the with your fully qualified domain name.
Open a command prompt window and type in the following: To check and see if you can contact it, you can perform a DNS lookup for the KMS Host.
9 times out of 10 it’s the client itself having issues just talking to your KMS server. KMS activation is perfectly safe and legal (for testing purposes), and will ensure that your software remains activated for a period of 180 days.
Sometimes when deploying computers in our organisation, they don’t see our KMS server and automatically activate (even though they are told to do so via our unattend.xml).
