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I use volume licensing MAK keys for my Windows clients. &nbsp;Do I add one of these keys to my original setup for Windows 10 Education activation before I sysprep it or do I wait till later. &nbsp; Also what about non-Windows activations like Adobe and Microsoft Office. &nbsp;Do any activation keys for these applications need to be added before I sysprep or are all activations done afterwards?
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I use volume licensing MAK keys for my Windows clients.  Do I add one of these keys to my original setup for Windows 10 Education activation before I sysprep it or do I wait till later.   Also what about non-Windows activations like Adobe and Microsoft Office.  Do any activation keys for these applications need to be added before I sysprep or are all activations done afterwards?

Activation Keys added before or after Sysprep

This topic area includes legacy versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000: Windows 3/3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, plus any other Windows-related versions including Windows Mobile.

Windows OS

Windows 8 is a personal computer operating system developed by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems, with an emphasis on improving its user experience on tablets. In particular, these changes included a touch-optimized Windows shell based on Microsoft's "Metro" design language, the Start screen, a new platform for developing apps with an emphasis on touchscreen input, integration with online services, support for USB 3.0, Advanced Format hard drives, near field communications, and cloud computing. Additional security features were introduced, such as built-in antivirus software, integration with Microsoft SmartScreen phishing filtering service and support for UEFI Secure Boot on supported devices with UEFI firmware.

Windows 8

Microsoft Office is an integrated suite of applications that includes Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio and InfoPath, along with a number of tools to assist in making the individual components work together. Coding within and between the projects is done in Visual Basic for Applications, known as VBA.