The Activate Windows action enables the activation of Windows either on a local or a remote machine. This is achieved by exchanging license-related data with a Microsoft Clearinghouse license server. If the machine is already activated then no action will be taken.
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Local Machine
The action will connect to the local machine, with the credentials of the current user.
Remote Machine
The action will connect to a remote machine, using the specified user account.
Username
The username can be specified either by just the username or DOMAIN/username
Remote Host name
The computer which to connect to, if the remote computer is in a different domain then that of the current user account, a Fully Qualified Domain Name must be specified. An IPv4/IPv6 may also be specified.