Now the Image is ready to deploy and the KMS server will receive different CMID’s from the servers. Setting the Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP\SkipRearm unattend setting value to 1 specifies that the computer will not be rearmed, and it will not be restored to its original, out-of-box state. Now set make sure the Skiprearm is set to 0 at the following location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\SoftwareProtectionPlatform According to my understanding, SkipRearm is a setting to postpone resetting the activation clock.
WINDOWS REARM HOW TO
Knowing this we searched how to reset the Rearm count and found an article that explained how we could reset the rearm count.
which means that when you set SkipRearm then you don’t rearm the machine.
We discovered that the “Remaining Windows Rearm Count” was 0. When testing this we discovered that the CMID keeps the same after rearming the Windows machine. We searched for a solution and everyone mentioned rearming the machine, but then we received the message that we can’t rearm. We then searched for a solution but everyone was pointing out to set the Skiprearm to 1. A different CMID is needed to activate using KMS services. When working with Machine Creation Services we discovered that the Clients all have the same CMID.