OK, I've got a 2008 standard box (not R2) with a KMS host key installed and activated. "slmgr /dli" on the server reports that it is using our VOLUME_KMS_B KMS key. It's activated, happy, good to go.

I imagine I need a new KMS host key for Windows 10 to work but with Windows 2016 still months away I'm not quite sure how this is supposed to work. Whatever key I install would still need to be able ...

To activate a retail version of Microsoft Windows, a user must enter the product key into Windows and then connect to the Internet or call Microsoft to validate the key. But that’s too cumbersome for ...

KMS or Key Management Services is usually a Windows Server computer configured to be a KMS host computer by installing the Volume Activation Services role. When an Enterprise uses KMS keys to activate ...