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Lots of windows apps behind Remote Desktop vms at my workplace too.
Do you have to maintain licenses for Windows XP and such? What a sorry state of affairs.
Nah for a single vm i just use the ol' pro key.
Fun fact: it will still validate on m$ servers
That’s wild! I thought you’d have to block all packets headed to MS or the WAN entirely.