Implementing Active Directory-based activation (ADBA)

If an organization needs to deploy 1,000 computers, do you think that they should also buy 1,000 Windows 10 licenses (including 1,000 installation media)? Technically, it is possible to purchase this number of Windows 10 licenses. However, from an administrative point of view, that would cause overhead. To avoid such situations, Microsoft has introduced Microsoft Volume Licensing, which enables a single Windows 10 license to be used on multiple computers at the same time.

What is Active Directory-based activation?

ADBA, introduced with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, is a graphical user interface (GUI)-based activation method that automatically activates computers with Windows 10 generic Volume License Key (VLK) editions once they join the organization's domain. To simplify the maintenance of volume activation services for an organization network, you can use ADBA.ADBA is a role service in Windows Server 2016 that you set up to your...