Activate any version of Windows and Office, forever
What can I do with this? This image will run a KMS server you can use to activate any version of Windows and Office, forever.
Works with:
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
- Windows 8
- Windows 8.1
- Windows 10
- Windows 11
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2022
- Windows Server 2025
- Microsoft Office 2010 ( Volume License )
- Microsoft Office 2013 ( Volume License )
- Microsoft Office 2016 ( Volume License )
- Microsoft Office 2019 ( Volume License )
- Microsoft Office 2021 ( Volume License )
- Microsoft Office 2024 ( Volume License )
- /kms/var - Directory of the activation database
name: "kms"
services:
app:
image: "11notes/kms:1.0.0"
environment:
TZ: "Europe/Zurich"
volumes:
- "var:/kms/var"
ports:
- "1688:1688/tcp"
restart: "always"
gui:
image: "11notes/kms-gui:1.0.0"
depends_on:
app:
condition: "service_healthy"
restart: true
environment:
TZ: "Europe/Zurich"
volumes:
- "var:/kms/var"
ports:
- "3000:3000/tcp"
restart: "always"
volumes:
var:Windows Server 2025 Datacenter. List of GVLK
slmgr /ipk D764K-2NDRG-47T6Q-P8T8W-YP6DFAdd your KMS server information to server via registry
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SoftwareProtectionPlatform" -Name "KeyManagementServiceName" -Value "KMS_IP"
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SoftwareProtectionPlatform" -Name "KeyManagementServicePort" -Value "KMS_PORT"
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform" -Name "KeyManagementServiceName" -Value "KMS_IP"
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform" -Name "KeyManagementServicePort" -Value "KMS_PORT"Activate server
slmgr /ato| Parameter | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
user |
docker | user name |
uid |
1000 | user identifier |
gid |
1000 | group identifier |
home |
/kms | home directory of user docker |
database |
/kms/var/kms.db | SQlite database holding all client data |
| Parameter | Value | Default |
|---|---|---|
TZ |
Time Zone | |
DEBUG |
Will activate debug option for container image and app (if available) | |
KMS_LOCALE |
see Microsoft LICD specification | 1033 (en-US) |
KMS_CLIENTCOUNT |
client count > 25 | 26 |
KMS_ACTIVATIONINTERVAL |
Retry unsuccessful after N minutes | 120 (2 hours) |
KMS_RENEWALINTERVAL |
re-activation after N minutes | 259200 (180 days) |
KMS_LOGLEVEL |
CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, DEBUG, MININFO | INFO |
These are the main tags for the image. There is also a tag for each commit and its shorthand sha256 value.
It is of my opinion that the :latest tag is super dangerous. Many times, I’ve introduced breaking changes to my images. This would have messed up everything for some people. If you don’t want to change the tag to the latest semver, simply use the short versions of semver. Instead of using :1.0.0 you can use :1 or :1.0. Since on each new version these tags are updated to the latest version of the software, using them is identical to using :latest but at least fixed to a major or minor version.
docker pull 11notes/kms:1.0.0
docker pull ghcr.io/11notes/kms:1.0.0
docker pull quay.io/11notes/kms:1.0.0
${{ title_unraid }} This image supports unraid by default. Simply add -unraid to any tag and the image will run as 99:100 instead of 1000:1000 causing no issues on unraid. Enjoy.
Tip
- Use a reverse proxy like Traefik, Nginx, HAproxy to terminate TLS and to protect your endpoints
- Use Let’s Encrypt DNS-01 challenge to obtain valid SSL certificates for your services
- Do not expose this image to WAN! You will get notified from Microsoft via your ISP to terminate the service if you do so
- Microsoft LICD
- Use 11notes/kms-gui if you want to see the clients you activated in a nice web GUI
This image is provided to you at your own risk. Always make backups before updating an image to a different version. Check the releases for breaking changes. If you have any problems with using this image simply raise an issue, thanks. If you have a question or inputs please create a new discussion instead of an issue. You can find all my other repositories on github.
created 05.05.2025, 11:03:41 (CET)