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    Hi there, 

    we have the following setup

    network zone1: windows-servers in domain ads.contoso.com without kms-host

    network zone2: windows-servers in domain tailspintoys.com with kms-host

    network zone 3: windows-clients from domain ads.contoso.com.

    I'd like to have windows-clients (client1.ads.contoso.com) to go to tailspintoys.com for kms-activation on the kms-host (kms.tailspintoys.com).

    how can i do that?

    i've seen there is a possibility to set the kms-host (slmgr.vbs /skms <value>:<port>) https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff793406.aspx

    but if possible, i'd like to have something such as _vlmsc._tcp.tailspintoys.com, but the clients are not joined to this domain. so how?

    thanks for inputs,

    adrian

    Tuesday, June 28, 2016 9:24 AM

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    Hi Uerueluem,

    You could add a SRV record in domain ads.contoso.com. And add a Host record of the FQDN, using the IP address of your KMS server in tailspintoys.com.

    For example:

    SRV record:

    _vlmsc._tcp.ads.contoso.com, kms.ads.contoso.com.

    Host record:

    kms.ads.contoso.com, XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX.

    Best Regards,

    Leo

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    • Proposed as answer by Leo Han Wednesday, July 6, 2016 9:26 AM
    • Marked as answer by Leo Han Thursday, July 7, 2016 8:46 AM
    Wednesday, June 29, 2016 3:16 AM

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    I found a pretty detailt article about the situation. But it does not answer my question at all.
    Tuesday, June 28, 2016 2:34 PM
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    Hi Uerueluem,

    You could add a SRV record in domain ads.contoso.com. And add a Host record of the FQDN, using the IP address of your KMS server in tailspintoys.com.

    For example:

    SRV record:

    _vlmsc._tcp.ads.contoso.com, kms.ads.contoso.com.

    Host record:

    kms.ads.contoso.com, XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX.

    Best Regards,

    Leo

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    • Proposed as answer by Leo Han Wednesday, July 6, 2016 9:26 AM
    • Marked as answer by Leo Han Thursday, July 7, 2016 8:46 AM
    Wednesday, June 29, 2016 3:16 AM
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    True, but as i mentioned to say, i can not put the dns-zone ads.contoso.com on the nameserver of tailspintoys.com because of our special network configuration in network zone 3. so this wont work.
    Wednesday, June 29, 2016 5:07 PM
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    Hi Uerueluem,

    >>but as i mentioned to say, i can not put the dns-zone ads.contoso.com on the nameserver of tailspintoys.com

    I'm afraid I have not seen the you mentioned this. And I'm not asking you to configure it.

    Have you read my reply?

    Clients in netowrk 3 would query _vlmsc._tcp.ads.contoso.com to the DNS server in domain ads.contoso.com. DNS server give the FQDN of KMS server, kms.ads.contoso.com. Then clients would query the IP address of the FQDN, and connect to KMS server using IP address.

    Best Regards,

    Leo

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    Thursday, June 30, 2016 2:18 AM