KMS fails to register with DNS

[carlp69]

Installed KMS on 2003 Server and activated it no problem. No errors where reported on the install and the licence state is active.
On the Vista Clients an error comes up the event log "Publishing the Key Management Service (KMS) to DNS in the '<Domain Name>' domain failed.". On checked the DNS Server I cannot see any entries for the KMS.

Any Ideas

 

[linney]

No idea, just bits of semi-related articles to help you in your search. Are you able to contact Microsoft about this error message, there seems to be a dearth of information available at the moment?

Windows Vista Volume Activation 2.0 Technical Attributes

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/plan/volact2.mspx

Windows Vista Volume Activation 2.0 Step-By-Step Guide
Step-By-Step Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/plan/volact1.mspx

Key Management Service for Windows Server 2003

http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/j...nagement-service-for-windows-server-2003.aspx

Can you supply the Event ID number and Event Source from the Event Viewer?

 

[dhochsta]

This is documented in the implementation guide,

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/desktopdeployment/bdd/2007/VolumeAct_6.mspx

Note If Dynamic DNS registration does not work for any reason, the DNS server administrator must enter SRV records manually. The records should be named _VLMCS._TCP.DNSDomainName, where DNSDomainName is the name of a DNS domain. Time to Live (TTL) for these records should be 60 minutes. The KMS host address and port (default 1688/TCP) should also be included in each record. KMS clients do not use the priority or weight fields when selecting a KMS host. Instead, they randomly select a KMS host from the complete list of KMS hosts that DNS returns for their domain.