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Windows Activation Status

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mmuni

Is there currently a way to setup a dynamic collection to list all computers that have not yet had Windows Activated?

I want to be able to do a quick scan after pushing out images to my machines to make sure they have all successfully activated windows. I can then quickly deal with any that may not have activated for whatever reason.

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    Marcel Lipovsky

    Hi Mmuni,

    I don't think that it is possible to create a activation based collection right now.

    As a workarround you can utilize the slmgr.vbs script. 

    You can loop through a list of computer using

    @echo off
    cscript /nologo c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs <computer> <login> <password> /xpr | findstr /i /c:" will expire "> NUL 2>&1
    if [%errorlevel%]==[0] (echo Not permanently activated.) else (echo Permanently activated)
    exit /b

    Check http://ss64.com/nt/slmgr.html for more information.

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    mmuni

    Yes that's why I'm thinking that this should be included in the computer information scan... It would be a simple thing to include would it not?

     

    I could have it loop through all my computers and output a text file for the computers needing to be activated, Then import the text file into PDQ deploy. But it would be much simpler if I could just have a PDQ Inventory Collection  along with a Scheduled PDQ Deployment that gets pushed out to any machines that have not been activated.

     

    Set it and forget it...

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    Marcel Lipovsky

    Another workarround would be to create a batch which would set a private registry entry using PDQDeploy and then scan for it with PDQ inventory. Then it would be possible to create a filter. Still a bit of hustle, but if you need it...

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    Joe Perryman

    Any further development on this?  Having similar issues with systems not activating.

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    mmuni
    What I ended up doing was just creating a package that runs the activation command. I set the package on a schedule that runs every couple days. If the computer is already activated the command doesn't really do anything but if it is not yet activated that it will be activated.
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