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We are currently in the process of setting up several Windows HPC clusters using Windows 2008 HPC R2. We would like to be able to perform Windows licensing commands across the clusters via the command line, i.e. display the current license status, install a product key, re-arm a trial key, etc.
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Unfortunately, the
slmgr
command always opens a dialog box to display its output, rather than writing to standard output. This is extremely unpleasant, as we'd like to be able to run parallel operations on the license status using the HPC tools.Stick Bootabil Windows 7 Cmd
Can anyone suggest a command for managing Windows licenses that works completely on the command line?
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Apologies for answering this myself: we encountered the answer just a minute ago.
It turns out that if you call
slmgr
with cscript
, the output will go to the command line rather than a dialog box. So you want a command like,cscript slmgr c:windowssystem32slmgr.vbs -dli
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When you enter, register and activate your copy of Windows, using a Retail key, the information is stored in the Windows Registry. Users of OEM computers may have noticed that, since a couple of years, the manufacturers have stopped pasting their COA or Certificate of Authenticity sticker, which displayed the Windows product key to the machine anymore. Now this key is embedded in the BIOS/UEFI.
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