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Server 2022 KMS host key bug; Can't activate Win10 Enterprise LTSB/LTSC
We recently dropped our new Server 2022 KMS host key onto our KMS server. After the necessary update to accept the 2022 key and activating the new 2022 host key, we were able to activate our most com...
rkiesewetter We're just being told in our case to be patient and wait until February/March 2022 for the patch. We also verified this issue affects the Server 2022 KMS Host OS + Server 2022 KMS Host Key setup, though the Microsoft engineer in the case also had said this setup was affected and wouldn't work either.
We didn't have any Server 2022 servers enter production yet, so we followed the support engineer's guidance to revert back to the Server 2019 KMS Host key to get these LTSB/C builds of Windows 10 activating again. ADBA was the only other recommended workaround.
Is he saying that ADBA works with 2022 KMS key on LTSB/C builds? That is a while to wait for a fix.
- We were told we could configure ADBA using the 2019 Host Key and then leave the 2022 Host Key intact to service KMS client requests. Supposedly both of these configs can coexist. Affected clients would use ADBA and yet Server 2022 clients could still activate. We did not go this route so can't independently verify whether it works.
