Enterprise Install

[Guest]

I'm about ready to scrap vista and reinstall XP....
I have a Vista Enterprise DVD I downloaded from eopen site. I have a kms
server running on my domain with 4 clients talking to it.

I built a computer that I was going to use ghost to image a classroom,
however the machines won't register with KMS. Reading a little farther into
the step-by-step for deployment I realized I needed to sysprep the image box
before creating the image. Great, so I go back to my image box to run
sysprep and it fails. Reading up on sysprep, MS claims that it has tried to
re-activate too many times. Fine, format and reinstall vista. Try to
sysprep the newly formatted and installed machine, same failure.

Reading deeper, there is supposed to be a key in pim.txt on my dvd, I found
the file but there is nothing inside of it. I figured maybe it was the iso
and DVD. Downloaded and burned a brand new image and dvd, exact same result.
Tried different speeds burning with different brand names of media on
different computers...same results.

So I can't install from dvd to create an image, I can't sysprep to get a
generic activateable image, I can't activate because most can't see KMS,
can't reinstall because I can't use up my KMS licenses.

Any ideas out there?

 

[Plato]

I have a Vista Enterprise DVD I downloaded from eopen site. I have a kms
server running on my domain with 4 clients talking to it.

One should always own the CD for the OS they want to use.

 

[Guest]

One should always own the CD for the OS they want to use.

I also have tried with a purchased media.
Same results. Also this is a full version and not an upgrade.

 

[Jeffrey S. Sparks]

I thought you had to have 25 computers running Vista before you could use
Enterprise and your own KMS server?

Jeff

 

[Guest]

25 computers before KMS will start activating. I can't get the them to fully
install to even see the kms server. I do have a 4 count on kms for machines
it sees, but those were built using the kms key (which I now understand was
the wrong key to use)