The servers and desktops then use a Generic Volume License Key (GVLK) which let the machine know it needs to find and activate against an internal KMS resource and not go out to activate against Microsoft’s servers.įWIW – you can find all of the GVLK product keys here – Īpparently even if you have the Volume Licensing agreement, MS doesn’t automatically issue the CSLVK KMS key to you in your portal.
It’s basically your volume license key that gets hosted internally. The CSLVK KMS key is what gets loaded into the KMS server. We did and so I jumped into the MS Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) portal to grab our Client Specific Volume License Key (CSLVK) Key Management Service (KMS) key. To begin with, you need to have a Volume Licensing agreement with Microsoft. Was beginning the introduction of Windows Server 2019 to a work environment and ran into some hurdles that were easily cleared, but want to share…
