Microsoft Volume Activation Management Toolkit is a free tool to manage and apply Microsoft licenses over the network. Administrators can use VAMT to remotely apply licenses to products like Windows OS and Microsoft Office. Clients does not have to connect to internet to activate, VAM tool machine act as a proxy on the activation process.
VAMT work with licenses such as KMS and MAK. Also this can use to generate reports on varies licensing activities. Latest version of the volume activation management tool is VAMT 3.1
Features of VAMT 3.1
Installing VAMT
VAMT 3.1 comes with windows automated deployment toolkit. So you have to download it for VAMT
http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/1/9/8197FEB9-FABE-48FD-A537-7D8709586715/adk/adksetup.exe
Adding Product Keys
You need to insert product keys to VAMT before activating products, keys such as Windows KMS, Windows MAK and Office keys can be imported.
Activate using VAMT
To activate, you have discover the products and push the license key to them using VAMT. Products can be discovered using Active directory, IP address or LDAP query. For this article I’m doing an AD discovery.
Note – for this article I’m doing a proxy activation
Reporting with VAMT
References
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff686878.aspx#_Toc257201349
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824945.aspx
Hope this article is useful
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Asitha De Silva