About application activation via Kaspersky Security Center
April 2, 2024
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If you manage Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Servers via Kaspersky Security Center, you can use a key to activate the application. Kaspersky Security Center lets you automatically distribute keys to managed devices. You can use a key file or activation code to add a Security Server key for Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Servers to the storage of the relevant Administration Server. You can use the functionality that automatically distributes the key to managed devices in the key properties, both when you add the key to the Administration Server storage and at any other time.
For more details on the specifics of managing Kaspersky application keys via Kaspersky Security Center, see the Kaspersky Security Center Administrator's Guide.
The automatically distributed key is added as the active key on servers with Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Servers connected to the current Administration Server, which do not have an active key or whose licenses have expired.
If the license is about to expire and a reserve key is missing, the key is added as a reserve key. The application automatically switches to using this key when the active key expires. You cannot distribute a key that was added as a reserve key using an activation code.
When new servers with Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Servers are connected to the Administration Server, the key is applied to them automatically.
If the automatically distributed key has been added for at least one Security Server from the profile for managing multiple Security Servers, Kaspersky Security uses this key as the active key of the Kaspersky Security profile.
When the automatically distributed key is removed from the Administration Server storage, the Security Server to which the key was automatically distributed continues to use the key. In this case, the key can be managed and its details viewed only via the interface of Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Servers.
The scenario of key distribution to servers with Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Servers using the key distribution task is not supported.
