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Anyone having any issues with KMS activation of Windows 10? I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 setup with KMS that is happily servicing Windows 7, 8 and Office KMS activations currently. I read somewhere that in order to activate Windows 10 you need to make sure update KB3058168 is installed on the KMS host server, which it is! However when ever I run cscript slmg.vbs /ato on any Windows 10 Education PC is comes up with the following: Error: 0xC004F074 The Software Licensing Service reported that the computer could not be activated. No Key Management Service (KMS) could be contacted. Please see the Application Log for additional information. Which is weird as the Windows 7 and 8 PC's activate fine! On the KMS host I get this in the KMS log: An activation request has been processed. Info: 0xC004F042,25,WIN10-TEST.coombeshead.com,bc69bd8b-4053-4e03-b0fd-6668ffe66b78,2015/08/10 12:05,0,5,0,e0c42288-980c-4788-a014-c080d2e1926e Any ideas? Cheers... Neil

Hi everyone, I've just finished creating an image for a small set of office computers [Windows 7 Pro 64-bit]. The image is very clean, and my sysprep script has skiprearm to 1, and also has 2 scripts that run after the image is deployed. One script sets the product key, and the other script activates it. Anyway, this works great. I captured the image, restarted the reference computer [which would be one of the office computers], and made sure sysprep ran correctly, which it did. However, since sysprep ran correctly, the product key was applied and the machine was activated. Normally, this is great. But I then wanted to add Adobe Reader [cause I forgot to add it to the image like an idiot], and change one other thing with the wallpaper image. Great, did that. Cleaned up again, and ran sysprep using the same unattend.xml. Captured image. When I restarted this time, again, everything went according to plan. But I didn't see the two cscript windows appear the first time I logged in as administrator. I checked Computer Properties though, and it said Windows is Activated. I also checked the event viewer though, and I see one of these: "Installation of the Proof of Purchase failed. 0xC004F050". Only once, at the beginning. The machine seems to be running fine, I'm on it right now typing this. However, it hasn't been on for more than 45 minutes or so, and I've seen some weird things while Googling the above event that say the computer could randomly blue screen after 3 hours and that sort of thing. I just wanted to check with you guys, do you think I'm ok to push this image out to the other few office computers? Or is it safer to scrap it and start again with windows not activated? Or should I just reapply the product key and activate again? Everything seems to work beautifully, just want to be safe. Any thoughts greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!

I upgraded from an activated win 8 to win 10 via media creation tool Sadly it says windows needs activating even though it is connected to the internet I have used the telephone activation system before on another machine, but cant find it now Thanks

Link: Windows 10 Activation Troubleshooter [build 14371]

Hello, We are running XenServer and XenDesktops 5.6 and have created a gold image for students to use with both Windows 7 and Office 2013 activated via our internal KMS server. The problem we have is when we create the desktops from the gold image (approx 30) they are no longer activated. I was wondering what the best practice is for KMS activation for both windows and office on citrix virtual desktops? Any info would be great. Thank you, William

Hi All, This has been puzzling me for a while and I’m sure I’m missing something really simple! I set up my KMS on a server 2008 r2 machine, as I added new server 2008 r2 machines it activated them fine via KMS. But now I’m adding Windows 7 machines they don’t activate! Office 2010 activates no problem. I can see in the event viewer the new Windows 7 machines are commutating with KMS but no activation. Any ideas what I’m doing wrong? Thank you

Got Office 2010 though the new EES licensing. We haven't had any new Microsoft products since office 2000 and windows XP so KMS is all new to me. Set up a KMS server yesterday and activated the 5 minimum office clients so that's all working. The question I would like answered is what's the best way to activate office 2010 when using sysprep. We image the computer rooms quite alot with new software and/or tweaks maybe 2 or more times a term. I believe the way is to install office on the image and not activate but I would like to make sure before I do something silly. Will KMS bitch about anything if I keep re-imaging the computers and activating Office? Cheers

I have Web Server 2008 running as a VM on VMWare. I've entered the MAK key and when I try to activate it, the Windows Activation gives me the error code 0x8004FE2F. The event log shows Security-Licensing-SLC event ID 8200: License acquisition failure details. hr=0x8004FE2F and:- Security-Licensing-SLC event ID 1008: Acquisition of Secure Processor Certificate failed. hr=0x8004FE2F Googling doesn't turn up much, apart from setting the proxy details manually in IE, which I've done. We don't have KMS. The only other option is to try phoning MS, but that's an ordeal. Any ideas? Thanks.

Link: Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10565 | Windows Experience Blog

Hi all, My name's Will and I'm the ICT Manager at a school in Birmingham. I've run into a problem that I'm having trouble resolving and I was hoping some of you guys could help out. I've created a spanking new image for some newlaptops that we've received and I'm about to Ghost it onto the other laptops. I always install XP Pro with SP2 from scratch using our Volume Licencing CD and Product Key which I've used for the 3 or so years. I've done the same this time around but to keep the image up to date I downloaded and installed SP3 along with the SP3 sysprep tools. The problem comes during mini-setup when I come to enter the Product Key. It's saying that the Product Key is invalid despite the fact I'm using the same product key that is a) on every XP pro pc in our entire network, and b) I used to install the image from scratch. I can proceed through mini-setup if I leave the product key blank, but then I have a 25 day activation limit. Obviously any attempt to activate Windows using my VLK is thwarted! Has anyone else come across this error? Incidently (or not as the case may be), I installed SP3 on our most recent desktops before sysprepping them, but the difference being I (inadvertently) used the SP2 version of sysprep. This worked without a problem. Is my image knackered? Any input will be gratefully received and if you need any more info, fire away... Cheers, Will

I have a fleet of laptops running Windows 11, and either a BIOS update or Windows update causes them to all of a sudden show up as unactivated with the "Activate Windows" watermark. They were all activated during deployment with a MAK key. That key is still valid. How can I "reactivate" these without haivng to touch each and every laptop? Would it make sense to try to convert my MAK to a KMS?

Hi, First post on this forum so I hope this is in the correct place! Over the last few months the network manager and I have been working on upgrading our schools network. We have just replaced our (very) old RM servers and moved to 2008R2 which we are running our selves. We have also upgraded the OS we use to windows 7 and have deployed this using SCCM, creating packages for software ect. When we came to creating a package for CS4 we used the deployment kit provided by adobe, which has worked perfectly, the only problem we have is when students go to run anything CS4, it is prompting for activation and asking for a product key. This has all been built into the CS4 deployment so should not be needed. I have done some testing and it seems that this problem is ONLY for student user accounts, if a staff member logs on and runs photoshop or any other CS4 product it activates automatically as it should. This is causing a problem for us as having to run CS4 as a staff member on every pc in the school is a big task as we have over 350 pc's. Student and staff users both have a different profile type and a separate group policy so I have narrowed it down to being either of those. Students use mandatory profiles where as staff use roaming. Both the student and staff policies are very similar permission wise so I am having trouble finding anything that could stop adobe from activating. What I would like to know is if anyone else has had a similar problem or knows of anything that could be causing this? Any help would be much appreciated so thank you in advance! Joe

I can't activate, I've used my MAK key with 45 activation but the server insists that MY activation server is uncontactable. The help is: contact your administrator. FML done the slmgr /ato the result was: NO KMS could be contacted? (I do have a KMS server but I don't have that setup for server 2022 and didn't want to bother it) ((and I didn't use a KMS client key with the datacentre servers)) what is wrong, I've put a proxy in and can surf the web?!!

I'm having a bit of a nightmare activating Windows 7 through our Smoothie box. The error code received is 0x8004fe33 and, according to Activation fails when you try to activate Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 over the Internet it is a problem with the proxy connection. I've tried adding an exception for all the sites listed but that doesn't seem to have worked. The logs also don't seem to show the box hitting any of those sites wither. Any ideas? BTW - Since I only need to activate two machines at present I don't want to sort out a KMS server yet. I know I can totally unfilter them but it's beside the point as it should work and it would be handy to have it working anyway.

All, I have a Windows 10 image I want to capture. It is not activated yet. I have MAK key. Should I activate it BEFORE I capture or do I not and activate it each time I pull it down to a new workstation? Thank you in advance.

Hello All, I wonder if anyone had similar problem. Randomly one of windows 7 machines come off the network and is asking for activation key. I am hoping its not a virus because I added machine back on and updated activation key. Unfortunately Activeinspire on that machine does not open any more. I re-installed software but wilt no luck. Could it be network card issue? After this incident I cant see this machine through Impero. That usually means network card issue. Thank you in advance

Good morning, I have recently set up a 2012 R2 DC on my network, as part of a network upgrade from XP to 7. I am in the process of installing KMS for windows activation. I have installed the Volume activation Tools role on the server, and go through until i click "commit" to activate the KMS host, but i get a security error (please see attached image). Why do i get this error? i can't seem to find a decent guide on how to set up KMS for windows 7 on server 2012 R2, and i am new to KMS. Anything else i need to do before this, or anything i need to check when installing? Thanks in advance, Regards Harry

How are you licensing Visual Studio, or are you not using at all? I have students who must not access the internet for their CS Controlled Assessment. Visual Studio Community Edition, free to schools, requires an Office 365 account to use. How are these two compatible? I've tried to unblock the domains only for O365 sign in (without actually allowing access to O365) but I still have a couple of students who cannot utilise Visual Studio. This seems to be since the new sign in method was released by MS, but I can't exactly pin point it down. We don't have the budget for Pro / Enterprise. If we can't license Community Ed without releasing internet access, it'll need to be replaced. Any suggestions?

Have successfully used MS Toolkit in past on same Windows 8.1 HP Envy laptop; had to do system restore and reload programs. Cannot activate MS Office Professional Plus 2013. Below are the messages I get when attempting (any help much appreciated): ---Processing-------------------------- ---------------------------------------- Installed product key detected - attempting to activate the following product: Name: Office 15, OfficeProPlusVL_KMS_Client edition Description: Office 15, VOLUME_KMSCLIENT channel Family: OfficeProPlusVL_KMS_Client SKU ID: b322da9c-a2e2-4058-9e4e-f59a6970bd69 Last 5 characters of installed product key: GVGXT ERROR CODE: 0x8007000D ERROR TEXT: The data is invalid. ---------------------------------------- When trying with EZ-Activator: ---------------------------------------- Installing Any Matching Volume Keys. ---------------------------------------- Attempting To Activate Microsoft Office Attempting to Activate OfficeProPlusVL_KMS_Client ERROR CODE: 0x8007000D ERROR TEXT: The data is invalid. ----------------------------------------