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Marcel100
Copper Contributor
Nov 27, 2018

Change from local KMS to M365 E3 Windows activation fails

In the past we used a local KMS server for our Windows 10 1803 Enterprise installations. Now we have M365 E3 subscribtions and moved the laptops to AAD. If I do a slmgr /xpr it Always shows an end da...
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Ben Hos
Copper Contributor
Jan 04, 2019

Did you manage to work this out, I am seeing devices that are running enterprise 1803 with a KMS key and when a Windows 10 Enterprise user with a licence logs in it does not convert to M365 licence it just shows error that it can not contact KMS server (Road warrior user that has not access to internal network). 

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Marcel100
Copper Contributor
Jan 06, 2019

Hi 

 

Sorry no solution yet, we are still working with Microsoft to fix it. We have issues with Lenovo Thinkpads if they have no Windows Key in BIOS.

 

Regards, Marcel

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    Ben Hos
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 07, 2019

    Looks like you were having a similar issue to us but with a little more complication, turns out the device needs to have an activated license to apply the Windows 10 Enterprise subscription license.  Fortunately for us the devices all have bios level licenses so I just wrote a quick powershell script that rips out the un-activated KMS license and pulls the one from the BIOS, adds it and activates it.

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