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ok, so in this case I only have one physical server running as KMS, can I set one more on the existing WSUS VM ?<br />
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if for some reason the KMS primary server is down for more than 7 days, what happened to the Tier-1 business servers like Exchange, SQL and SharePoint servers OS (Win 2008 R2 and 2012 R2) ?
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ok, so in this case I only have one physical server running as KMS, can I set one more on the existing WSUS VM ?

if for some reason the KMS primary server is down for more than 7 days, what happened to the Tier-1 business servers like Exchange, SQL and SharePoint servers OS (Win 2008 R2 and 2012 R2) ?

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Ah that sounds simple. So no need to provide high redundancy on this KMS server.<br />
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Thanks,
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Ah that sounds simple. So no need to provide high redundancy on this KMS server.

Thanks,

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People,<br />
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I've got physical KMS server running on Windows Server 2012, what if the server is failed and cannot be brought up during the software updates ? does my whole Windows OS becoming inactive / not activated ?<br />
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Is there any way to provide some sort of redundancy for the KMS server ?<br />
<br />
Thanks.
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People,

I've got physical KMS server running on Windows Server 2012, what if the server is failed and cannot be brought up during the software updates ? does my whole Windows OS becoming inactive / not activated ?

Is there any way to provide some sort of redundancy for the KMS server ?

Thanks.

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