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.
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.