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A license is not installed on a system. You can find out all sorts of information about the version of the operating system running and whether or not it has been activated and what sort of activation is in use on that particular machine. But it still comes down to the fact that the information gathered from the above means must be manually matched with the paper licenses that have been purchased.
For example, assume a company has signed a volume license agreement for 20 physical hosts running Windows Server Standard. The volume activation key is not limited to activating 20 physical hosts.
They could activate 30 hosts on that volume activation key. Nothing in Windows will highlight that. All physical hosts will show as being properly activated with the company's volume activation code, but that does not mean they are properly licensed. When it gets into virtual machines, it gets trickier yet. Nothing prevents the user from instantiating more than two instances.
Nothing prevents the running of more than two Windows Server VMs. The environment needs to inventoried to determine what is running what operating systems and where those operating systems are running. Then there has to be a comparison back to the paper licenses to determine whether or not the company is in compliance with the license agreement they have signed.
The request of the original post was " find which all servers are license and which all are not. Yes, it is important to determine which systems are activated and how they are activated, but the question was about licensing - not activation unless the OP clarifies and states that interest really was just about activation. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? This option is really designed to prevent the key from being stolen by malware, if malware running on the current system gains access to the registry.
You can use slmgr. If the Windows system already has a product key, using the below command will silently replace the old product key with the one you provide. Run the following command to replace the product key, replacing - - - - with the product key.
Microsoft advises you restart the computer after running this command. You can also change your product key from the Activation screen in the Settings app, but this command lets you do it from the command line. To force Windows to attempt an online activation, run the following command.
DB, that is all there is to using Windows PowerShell to detect product activation status. WMI Week will continue tomorrow when I will talk about more cool stuff. I invite you to follow me on Twitter and Facebook. If you have any questions, send email to me at scripter microsoft. See you tomorrow. Until then, peace. Comments are closed. What is ApplicationID here it is same for all window operating system?
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