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HugeNull
Copper Contributor
Feb 28, 2019
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AVMA Activation Failing

The Host is a standard install with gui, I activated with the DataCenter Key no Issues and then I added the Hyper-V role. The VM I installed standard with gui and has no roles the VM will not activat...
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    HugeNull
    Mar 07, 2019

    Thanks for the Info. I only used the eval media because without access to the volume licensing center it was the only ISO source available.

     

    I used   

    dism /online /Set-Edition:ServerDataCenter /AcceptEULA /ProductKey:<Retail Key>

     

    and it converted the eval edition to retail then used 

    slmgr /ipk H3RNG-8C32Q-Q8FRX-6TDXV-WMBMW

     

    To change the retail key to the AVMA key, not sure why I didn't think to try the retail key with the dism cmd but you comment gave me the idea. I also got a hold of a retail ISO. 

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dretzer
Iron Contributor
Mar 06, 2019

As far as I know you can't use AVMA to convert Eval to Retail. You should not use an Evaluation-Media to install your VM's in the first place. You already have a Server Datacenter Retail license so you should just use the same installation media for your VM's. The retail installations will auto-activate with an AVMA Key.

If you have some specific reason why you have to use Eval-Media for your VM's, you need a Retail-Productkey to convert them to retail-version. AVMA will not work here.

If you have a retail product key you want to use, just use the DISM-command you already tried, but with the retail product key for ServerDatacenter.

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    HugeNull
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 07, 2019

    Thanks for the Info. I only used the eval media because without access to the volume licensing center it was the only ISO source available.

     

    I used   

    dism /online /Set-Edition:ServerDataCenter /AcceptEULA /ProductKey:<Retail Key>

     

    and it converted the eval edition to retail then used 

    slmgr /ipk H3RNG-8C32Q-Q8FRX-6TDXV-WMBMW

     

    To change the retail key to the AVMA key, not sure why I didn't think to try the retail key with the dism cmd but you comment gave me the idea. I also got a hold of a retail ISO. 

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