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[–] 140 points 6 months ago (7 children)

you can activate any windows or office by using vlmcsd (https://github.com/Wind4/vlmcsd). you can selfhost it, choose any windows version like 11 pro or enterprise or office product like office 24 enterprise. activate it using your kms server and you can enter the matching licence key every so often to activate it. doesn't cost a cent except hosting on 512mb/1cpu. i think there are public kms servers with vlmcsd too. obviously JUST FOR TESTING PURPOSES ;)

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  • [–] 44 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Simpler to just use massgrave, no?

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  • [–] 32 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Ah yes key management server server

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    haha yes sorry! my wireless wlan had some issues with my personal pc when i was etablishing a secure ssh connection. could also be an error with my dns system or with the http protocol.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    so this is what an aneurism feels like

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  • [–] 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    kms server? massgrave? is this a dark joke i am not in on

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  • [–] 31 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Kms is key management services.

    Why massgrave is called that, I have no idea.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    i thought kms was kill my self

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I figured that's what you thought. To be fair, using Microsoft also makes me want to kms. Luckily I don't have to.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    KMS is microsoft's method of product activation mostly for organizations, they can run an activation server inside an intranet for instance. Also widely used for pirating windows since it's easy to run one of those kms emulators

    https://massgrave.dev/ is a fairly recent development, they have a tool called MAS that can activate windows/office/etc using many methods including KMS

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    That's the part that mystifies me. On the one hand, in an enterprise setting, it can be frustratingly difficult to license and activate your MS products, to the point where you cry out "Why do you make it so hard to give you our money?"
    And on the other hand, you can easily bypass the whole thing and get all their stuff for free.
    And it's been that way for decades, so it doesn't seem to be a mistake on their part.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago

    In an enterprise setting you'd use something like Active Directory-Based Activation.

    You store your KMS key in Active Directory, then any machine that contacts the domain controller will be activated.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    not sure about the legal side because when you install windows you accept eula and much more shit so im sure there is a sentence 'only keys officially bought from and provided from microsoft shall be used.'

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Does https://massgrave.dev/ not work anymore?

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