Hello All - I have used Ghost many times in the past, but am new to Ghost Solution Suite 3.x and this is my first time attempting to deploy a Windows 10 image. I have spoken to Microsoft support (not particularly helpful) and have tried searching this forum but there seems to be an isue with getting old posts to display?
My situation is this: I have twelve DELL PCs, brand new, that shipped with with Windows 10 Pro OEM. I have purchased a volume license for Windows 10 Pro (MAK) so that I am legal with my reimaging rights. I have taken one of the twelve computers and reinstalled Windows 10 Pro (1709) with the VL media. I went in to Settings and changed the Activation to my VL MAK key. I then create the image with Ghost and all seems successful. I then deply this image to one of the other computers which also appears to be succesful. The issue is that, when I boot the second computer and go in to Settings, I'm getting the "can't activate Windows on this device" error. I try reactivating with the VL MAK key with no success. I try extracting the OEM key via the WMIC command and reenter that but I receive the same error. On going back to the first PC, I run dlmgr /dlv and notice something odd. While it shows that it is activated with a Volume License key, MAK, etc., the partial key displayed is the OEM key for that PC. I try reactivating again with the VL key and get the same behavior, no change in what is disaplyed in dlmgr.
I feel like I'm missing an important step here. I'm not terribly familiar with Windows 10 Pro yet, but I understand that these PCs are, for lack of a better discription, getting their OEM key from the BIOS. I seem to be unsuccesful in getting my test computer to 'take' the VL MAK key, even after a fresh install from the VL media. Can anyone help to shine some light on this?