KMS and Windows Server 2019 - activation of old OSes

Hello, I would like to 'prepare' our KMS to activate Windows Server 2019. I took a look at this page https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started-19/activation-19 and noticed that th...

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MarcVDH

Iron Contributor

Dec 07, 2018

Hello Ken,

Apparently Microsoft did change the documentation and it is now stated that the Server 2019 key supports activating Windows 7 machines.

So, everything should be ok. (I hope :-) )

Marc

troma76

Copper Contributor

Feb 06, 2019

i found the issue it turns out that update kb971033 has something to do with this issue. here is how you fix it

run this from an elevated command prompt:

wusa /uninstall /kb:971033
net stop sppuinotify
sc config sppuinotify start= disabled
net stop sppsvc
del %windir%\system32\7B296FB0-376B-497e-B012-9C450E1B7327-5P-0.C7483456-A289-439d-8115-601632D005A0 /ah
del %windir%\system32\7B296FB0-376B-497e-B012-9C450E1B7327-5P-1.C7483456-A289-439d-8115-601632D005A0 /ah
del %windir%\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareProtectionPlatform\tokens.dat
del %windir%\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareProtectionPlatform\cache\cache.dat
net start sppsvc
cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk FJ82H-XT6CR-J8D7P-XQJJ2-GPDD4 <---win 7 kms key
cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ato
sc config sppuinotify start= demand

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