He RDP'd into the KMS server—a quiet Windows Server 2019 VM humming in the corner of their data center. He opened PowerShell.
cscript slmgr.vbs /dli cscript slmgr.vbs /dli all Finally, he forced a test on his own laptop. He opened an elevated Command Prompt on his Windows machine, navigated to Office's installation folder: Office 365 Kms Activation
/ato succeeded.
He then enabled DNS auto-discovery so Office 365 clients would find the new KMS host: He RDP'd into the KMS server—a quiet Windows
He called his old mentor, Carmen.
But Dave had retired to a fishing boat in Florida, and Alex had inherited the server like a ticking time bomb. documented the steps
He saved the PowerShell script, documented the steps, and added a calendar reminder for 170 days from now: "Check KMS activation count."