Activating 2008 Enterprise

[acl03]

I am having trouble activating, and the phone activation option does not display.

We have a proxy server, and I get the message:

A problem occurred when Windows tried to activate. Error code 0x8007232B.

"More information" shows: DNS Name does not exist.

I searched everywhere on MS's website for a phone number to call to no avail. Anyone know what I can do?

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Thanks,
Andrew

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[mrdenny]

Windows is trying to find your KMS server on your domain. You'll either need to set one up or change the key to a non KMS key.

You can find info here on Microsofts FAQ

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/plan/faq.mspx

(It's for vista, but it should apply to Windows 2008 as well.)

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[dennydd]

Mr Denny is right.

I had this issue, get the MAK key for Server 2008 editions
from MSDN. It is a lot easier than wasting time with KMS server.