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Server 2016 Activation
Hi, I am having some trouble activating a newly installed Server 2016 VM. It is showing error 0xC004F074. We are simply attempting to use a MAK key. When trying to use slmgr /ipk or any other slm...
hello,
some ideas to try:
- are you sure that you tried to run your slmgr command in an ELEVATED CMD.EXE windows (run as administrator ) ?
- be carefull to use CMD.EXE et not the POWERSHELL windows
- always use for slmgr purpose, the full command line syntax with all pathes and runtime:
cscript.exe %Windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk xxxxxxxx
- have the same error if you try to activate via GUI ?
some ideas to try:
- are you sure that you tried to run your slmgr command in an ELEVATED CMD.EXE windows (run as administrator ) ?
- be carefull to use CMD.EXE et not the POWERSHELL windows
- always use for slmgr purpose, the full command line syntax with all pathes and runtime:
cscript.exe %Windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk xxxxxxxx
- have the same error if you try to activate via GUI ?