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Strange labels on our servers
GNU/Linux Activation Technologies (GLAT) “license keys” are practical joke (arguably taken too far)
Based on the Linux Genuine Advantage parody of the similar Microsoft programme http://www....
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Purchasing a license for enterprise GNU/Linux
You should remove this glat-client from your affected systems, and treat this as a potential security compromise.
Looking at the source code repositories for this so-called glat-official, we can see ...
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How to allow more than two simultanous sessions on Azure
This is nothing to do with Azure, this is the limit imposed by Windows Server on remote administration, you can only have 2 administrators connecting to a server to manage it at once.
If you need ...
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Strange labels on our servers
It's a joke, mostly.
The github link brings up glat-client, which in turn links to http://www.linuxgenuineadvantage.org/
From http://www.linuxgenuineadvantage.org/faq/:
Q: Is this for real?
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How to install RDP Client Access License trial or use its grace period?
The CALs are not what is limiting you to 2 sessions. You need to go through the Remote Desktop Services installation process through Server Manager.
Here is an article from Microsoft about the ...
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How to determine what kind of key Win7 was activated with (retail or volume license)?
Run slmgr.vbs -dli from a command prompt (cmd.exe). It tells you the OS Version and the activation type (OEM, Retail, Volume license).
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Windows Server 2016 Datacenter VMs running on Hyper-V Server 2016
What you did wrong is adding the key. Which you needed because... ah.
You should have installed Datacenter on Hyper-V. With a proper key that would auto activate any VM on it. Hyper-V on the host is ...
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How many VMs can I install on Windows Server 2016 standard?
Standard edition allows you to run two Windows Server VMs and unlimited # of other operating system VMs.
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Upgrading from SharePoint Foundation 2013 to SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise
In-place upgrade of SharePoint 2013 Foundation to Full is not supported, the only supported upgrade type in this case is Database-attach upgrade. which the link you provided already mention (building ...
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How to view SQL Server licenses
Per https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174396.aspx:
LicenseType is Unused. License information is not preserved or maintained by the SQL Server product. Always returns DISABLED.
This is true ...
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Windows 2012 RDS Server asking for Licensing Mode when it's already set?
I have actually ran into this on a couple of servers running 2012 R2 recently and this solved it. Must be a 'feature'.
http://www.tbngconsulting.com/blog/bid/404182/Licensing-mode-for-the-Remote-...
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Retaining Windows Server 2016 Licence when migrating VMs
A virtual machine is NEVER licensed. A license is ALWAYS assigned to the physical host. You use a license key to activate a VM but that does not mean that the license is assigned to the VM. It is not. ...
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How to Run Updates Xenserver 6.5 Free Edition
Yes, updating through XenCenter is one of the features of the paid edition. On the free edition you need to (I somehow missed that difference between 6.2 and 6.5 - indeed Xencenter 6.5 allows updating ...
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VMware vSphere 6.0 free versus Essentials versus Open Source?
Wow...
You have this all wrong. I'll try to clarify VMware's product offering.
VMware vSphere is available for a 60-day trial. That includes all components necessary to install ESXi on your host ...
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How to view SQL Server licenses
I know this post is older, but haven't seen a solution that provides the actual information, so I want to share what I use for SQL Server 2012 and above. the link below leads to the screenshot showing ...
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Activate a Remote Desktop License Server without GUI
This code should handle the activate the license server by PowerShell part of your question and may give you ideas for the rest.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------...
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Can VMWare ESX(i) pull the serial numbers of the physical hard drives of its physical host?
You can SSH into your ESXi server and use the esxcfg tools to find this information.
# List all Logical Devices known on this system with device information
esxcfg-scsidevs -l
# Filter Logical ...
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Unable to upgrade Server 2012 Evaluation to Datacenter
This is a bit old, but for future reference you should have run:
DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerDatacenter /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX /AcceptEula
Using /Set-Edition:ServerDatacenter ...
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What steps are necessary to apply an Enterprise license to an iDRAC7 that shipped with a different license?
First I test the racadm account locally:
racadm getsysinfo
And if that works drop the XML file on that systems desktop and do the following:
racadm license import -f "C:\somepath\lic.xml" -c ...
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How many VMs can I install on Windows Server 2016 standard?
A distinction needs to be made about what the licensing allows; Standard Edition licensing allows for 2 guest Windows OSE instances under a single Standard Edition license for the host.
BUT
You may ...
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Why is SQL Server 2017 Web Edition capping at 25% CPU usage?
Per Windows Task Manager in the virtual environment I have 4 virtual processors. But when I run a long-running, taxing SQL query the CPU utilization maxes out at 25%.
Which means that even if the VM ...
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Deploy an Azure VM of image Windows 10 Pro (with license)
To deploy a Windows 10 VM in Azure you must already own Windows 10 Enterprise E3/E5 per user or Windows Virtual Desktop Access per user licences for Windows 10, you cannot use an Azure provided ...
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How many databases can i create per sql server license?
There are no extra costs per database. You can have as many databases as will run on your hardware. Seriously, I've seen a SQL Server 2008 instance with 3,000 databases on it.
(It took a little ...
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Windows 2012 RDS Server asking for Licensing Mode when it's already set?
Hit this problem earlier today - identical symptoms on a Server 2012 R2 RDS setup.
The deployment properties showed the licensing mode and license server correctly but licensing diagnosis said the ...
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Can other Windows Servers be in the same AD domain with a Windows Essentials server?
I understand that Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2 must be deployed
as a the only domain controller in an environment.
You can have a second DC with Essentials (as you could with SBS--there were ...
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Can Windows 7 Professional OEM be imaged using WDS?
At the last place I worked we bought a ton of new and refurbished Dell PCs, they either had Dell Windows 7 Certificates of Authenticity or they came with Windows 8.
On those systems, I did ...
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How to install RDP Client Access License trial or use its grace period?
After you install the RDP roles, you should be able to use unlimited CALs for the grace period:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh553157(v=ws.10).aspx
120 days I believe.
The Grace ...
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What is the right method to use Red Hat Software Collections on Amazon AWS EC2 instances?
Ensure the Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI) configuration is up to date:
yum update rh-amazon-rhui-client
List the available repositories:
yum repolist all
Find the appropriate repository, and ...
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How to use Microsoft KMS server 2016 to activate a Windows Server 2008 R2
A Windows Server KMS key allow to to activate any older version of Windows Server.
So, since you added Windows Server 2016 KMS keys to the KMS server, you have nothing special to do, your Windows ...
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Office 365 - swap subscriptions of two users
There is a 30 day window after removing a license before data is removed in O365.
I've successfully pulled and swapped licenses without any issue.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365/...
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