Set Host Product Key no logger works

[lebrun78]

@sebastian-roth said in Set Host Product Key doesn't work anymore:

I have one key for each client.

Each client have its own key (Education version),
Before, after deploiment, licence key was activated in system properties of each PC.
But, with deploiements done recently, not actually, windows appears not activated. Wrong key format ?

[lebrun78]

I keep windows 10 16 07 version

[Sebastian Roth]

@lebrun78 said:

Before, after deploiment, licence key was activated in system properties of each PC.

So what changed? Did you upgrade FOG or Windows or anything else? When exactly did it stop working?

[george1421]

Just reading between the lines here…

Each client have its own key (Education version), Before, after deploiment, licence key was activated in system properties of each PC.
But, with deploiements done recently, not actually, windows appears not activated. Wrong key format ?

and

I keep windows 10 16 07 version

Gives me the impression that the OP has Windows Education OEM installed and trying to deploy 1703 to these systems and the systems are failing to reapply the OEM key. If this is correct there could be a EULA compliance issue since you need a VLK key to support imaging. If this was true then the OP should have a single VLK key for all computers and not individual.

Aside the legal question here, I have a question for the OP

@lebrun78

1. Once the images are deployed can you manually key in the license key and manually activate the system?
2. Just after imaging, does the target computer have direct access to the internet? (activation via fog still requires internet access to activate).

[lebrun78]

@george1421

1. Once the images are deployed can you manually key in the license key and manually activate the system? > Yes
2. Just after imaging, does the target computer have direct access to the internet? (activation via fog still requires internet access to activate). > Yes

We have subscribe to the Microsoft imagine program, so we can generate keys.

[george1421]

@lebrun78 Other than the client machine not working, is there an error message you can show us where it tells us the activation failed?

This might be in the fog client log or in the windows event viewer. What I want to see is if we can see where the MS VLK key is being used to check to see if it matches what you have configured in the FOG GUI.

[lebrun78]

@george1421
Here is, in french the screen copy of the client error :

the end of the installed key looks like the free key :
https://www.windows10forpc.com/windows-10-product-key/

I don’t find that string in my MDT config

[lebrun78]

Fog client freezed, restart computer, client works and windows activated

[george1421]

@lebrun78 So the problem is the fog client crashed and once the computer was restarted it completed the activation? Do I understand correctly?

[lebrun78]

Yes, restart computer > ok
If I restart the fogservice, it works too

[Sebastian Roth]

@lebrun78 Thanks for letting us know. Good you got this solved! Marked as solved.