MAK Reactivation..

[Guest Martyvlb]

Hi Guys

I have been testing a rollout of windows 7 and have succcesfully managed to roll out 100 Machines (i had a mak key with a 100 limit). Each of these machines were activated with a MAK key which left them all activated no problem.

I appplied some updates to some of the machines that were in my test area and i am now receiving a error message indicating to me that the mak key has reached its limit and that these machines are no longer activated.

My understanding of the MAK system was that once a client was activated with a MAK it subtracted 1 from your overall allowed count and that machine would never need to reactivate (unless a major hardware change etc) and once you had reached your allowed MAK count you obvisouly couldnt activate anymore. What it seems from this mornings situation is that once i have reached my allowed MAK activation limits any machine that was previously activated with that MAK will now go and try to reactivate itself (i presume the driver update i applied this morning caused it to do this) and due to me having hit my limit it wont reactivate.

 

Can anyone shed any light on this? i dont want to apply the update to the rest of my systems just now as it would mean that they would all go and try to reactivate and fail.

 

I know i hit my limit with the MAK activations thats not what the problem is, its the fact that a previously activated system is trying and failing to reactivate itself after an update. This kind of leaves me under the impression that if i plan on deploying 400 windows 7 machines with MAK's i would need to purchase at least double that incase an update forced them to go and reactivate.......

 

Thanks

 

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