![]() ![]() The culprit appears to be an ancient Windows 7 update called the Update for Windows Activation Technologies KB971033. The Windows 7 desktop should only be talking to your local KMS server to get its’ activation. If you are familiar with KMS you’d know that the local KMS server is the only thing that should be talking to Microsoft to get Activation. ![]() According to reports, the logs show that previous activation requests were going to the local KMS server and to Microsoft’s Activation servers online. This appears to be mainly on VDI desktops but some have reported physical desktops are having the issue as well. ![]() The issue apparently started Tuesday January 8th, 2019 and is intermittently causing some Windows 7 desktops that are activated by KMS to display the Windows is not genuine dialog when users login. Lets’ take a look at what’s happening and then dive into how to fix the issue! Thankfully there’s a reported fix and as my first post of 2019, I wanted to share it with the masses. It appears Microsoft has changed the way their KMS servers respond to certain activation requests. Reddit and a variety of tech forums have been full of posts from admins whose users are getting the Windows is not genuine dialog boxes on Windows 7 VDI desktops. Countless Horizon View and VDI administrators probably woke up on Tuesday, January 8th, 2019 thinking “Hey it’s Taco Tuesday!” What they didn’t know was Microsoft had other plans for them. ![]()
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