Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 Volume Activation 2.0

Written by IT News on 7:39 AM

Volume 2.0 activation is the advancement of the process of activation of the operating systems Windows, which both for the server and the client. Originally introduced with Windows Vista, the end of 2006 and beginning of 2007, volume 2.0 activation should Microsoft licensing programs for customers, and not the end-users. In this
Weise, the Redmond company to obtain a degree of control on what he views as the main source of pirated copies of Windows - product keys for the volume of previous versions of the operating system.

"So far, the activation of Microsoft Windows is only for Microsoft software purchased in the retail-trade and producer for the original equipment (OEM). Operating licenses as part of the volume licensing programs did not have to activate. Moreover, the available methods for the activation, it was difficult, product keys with the volume editions of Microsoft software. For this reason, the keys for the volume product editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 were easily compromised and is the main source of the software. Indeed, more than 80% of Windows XP is due to the piracy of unintended The main products, the volume of customers, "Microsoft has demonstrated.

With the publication of the production and availability of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1/RTM, volume 2.0 activation remains largely the same as those of the RTM build of Vista, but at the same time there are changes. Mainly the changes to 2.0 activation volume, with the football-mode functionality reduces both the Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008. The company offers a full range of Redmond volume 2.0 activation direction, the documentation available and accessible for download here.

"If the activation is not immediately instead of after the operating system is installed, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 that, all the functions of the operating system for a limited time or permanently. The length of a period of thirty days varies, for Windows Vista to sixty days, for Windows Server 2008. afternoon expiration of the grace period, the first version of Windows Vista transitions mode with reduced functionality (RFM), but Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2008, the end of the first period of Grace, not walking in RFM, "Microsoft said.