Microsoft published a paper explaining how to isolate the KMS (Key Management Service) using IPsec. KMS doesn’t require any kind auf authentication. Therefore, anyone who gets network access to your KMS server is able to activate its Vista machine this way.

(more…)

Some days ago, I blogged about the pros and cons of KMS (Key Management Service). In this post, I summarized the pros and cons of using MAK (Multiple Activation Key), the second option for activating Vista in a corporate environment.

(more…)

The release candidate of VMware Workstation 6.0 has been available for some days already. I tried it now to see if the problems I had with Vista are solved. Unfortunately, I am still not able to use shared folders feature to access a host folder from a virtual machine.

(more…)

Some days ago, I published the first part of my review of VAMT where I wrote about my experiences with the Status Collection and the MAK management functionality. Today, I’ll discuss the most interesting features of VAMT, i.e. its ability to deploy MAK keys to Vista machines.

(more…)