In a previous post I showed that Volume Activation Management Tool which can be used for Windows 8 activation is now a part of what called Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit ( ADK ) .
In this one , I will show to you can perform installation of VAMT , so you can use it for Windows 8 activation .
First of all , download ADK installation file for Windows 8 from Here
Once completed , start the installer adksetup.exe and proceed as follow :
- You can go with either options below ( for me I will go with Install )
- Install : To perform direct installation of the required feature(s) on the local system and hence streams required components download
- Download : To download the required components to do installation on another system
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- At “Select the features you want to install” I choose VAMT and SQL 2012 Express ( as I have no SQL installed ) then click Install
- It starts by acquiring the installers packages and store it at C:\Users\%Username%\Downloads\Windows Kits\8.0\ADK\Installers ( This may take sometime based on your internet connection speed )
- Once download is completed , installer will proceed with VAMT installation
- Then SQL Server 2012 Express will be installed
- At last update finalization will take place
- Now , VAMT is installed
Now , when starting VAMT console it will request specifying of its data location [ I picked .\ADK for local machine and created a new database named IT Guy DB ] , then click Connect
My new database is being created [ IT Guy DB ] , then connection is taking place
- Once completed VAMT console is opened , connected and ready for use
Nice, is there any way to update from VAMT 2.0 to Version 3.0?
ReplyDeleteHi Dawed ,
ReplyDeleteThanks for being here. As far as I know there is no way to do update :( . If I got any new info. i will keep you informed .
Here is a link to an article on importing data to VAMT 3:
ReplyDeletehttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824976.aspx