Choose Role-Based or Feature-Based installation 3. Click yes for warning on that you are replacing the currently installed key Figure 5. This will popup All Servers Task Details and Notifications. So, in my case with standalone server this was enough: slmgr. I tried many other solutions to get this done for free as I used to 6 months ago. I checked the event log and found the following: License Activation slui. But then we read that putting that key in only counts for Server 2012 and Windows 8 based workstations, which we don't want to image because we have none of.
Volume License Key installed onto machine in 1 that lets clients activate 3. It activates Win 7, Server 2008 and R2 and Office 2010. If yes, i would just check this in our production environment. But, you cannot put the Windows 8. In my case I had installed Windows 2012 server and had not yet entered a product key. Install the following update: see.
See above for additional information on these options. In most cases just changing the key and reactivating will do the job. There is some documentation on this on google but they did not work. Before we start the roll out we need to either bring up a Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows 8. If you have the licenses you can legally build multiple domains, for security reasons for example. You can rearm the install to give you another 30 days, then the same thing happens. Additional Post Deployment Configuration 6.
Can anyone offer some assistance for this issue? Remedy: The solution is simply to enter a new or correct product key and try activating again. I banged my head on the desk for 3 hours. I use Sysinternal suite for trouble shooting often with beartail. I actually have a question. Clicking the check for updates, gives you a version that is older than the one installed so will not help….
I tried this again just now with the same result — any suggestions? The server has been up for a couple of days, and we have hundreds of Win 10 clients and probably 40 Win 2012 R2 servers that would be requesting a license and yet we are not getting any activations. When you put the license key, it try active the license right way. If you have Windows Firewall enabled, make sure that the rule that allows incoming connections to port 1688 is active. You may have more than one Active License, so if it does not appear under one, check the other. Select volume Activation Method 7. Here is for anyone who try activate over phone on machine that has no internect connection. With other user's input and I was able to put together the complete steps.
Hi Ryan, Thanks for the quick response. I saw there was a known issue on 2016 regarding this, but maybe there is the same issue on 2012 R2 as well and I just didn't have the fix installed to correct it. Everything seems to be activating just fine. I am able to choose the best windows hosting ,recently I used this hosting service for my site from mywindowshosting. Good luck I have a question… We have about 200 computers activated on Windows 8 ent and we are looking to start upgrading them to 8.
A practical limit would be 5 with one key, but talk to your account manager if you need more. In the second case, you will have to give the server temporary access to the Internet only for the activation time. So it appears to be working, but I gotta get up to 25 in order for it to activate and then I'll know for sure. If this is the case it would be helpful if someone from Microsoft could offer a suggestion as to what needs patching to make this work. Often this casued by some corruption or a missing file in Winsxs. It worked and activated Office 2016 and Windows 10. If it still fails, you'll have to call Microsoft support for them to verify the license key is correct or issue you a new one.
Choose the Volume Activation Services role. Skip to Configuration The Configuration screen shows some of the common configuration options available. Click Close when done, you will see a Yellow Triangle in Server manager which means that the role is installed but there is additional post deployment configuration required. After 6, it's showing a current count of 6. We just purchased 50 Windows 8. Click on your active license and then click on product keys.
I can configure it and run anything I want on it. Regards, Will We are trying to better understand customer views on social support experience, so your participation in this interview project would be greatly appreciated if you have time. I still can't believe that this isn't working. After much googling, and a dozen websites full of conflicting information, I'm stuck. We purchased a single Windows 8. Here is the trick I finally figured out.
So after a month of headaches with my reseller and Microsoft, there's finally a solution. You do get an entry in the event log. It will activate down level clients down to Windows Server 2008 and Vista. Just a heads up in case anyone else runs into this. It was still moaning about the key being invalid. Nope there is 1 more step.