Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2 Generic KMS Client Volume Activation Keys 01 Sep 2015 Recent Windows clients and servers require generic KMS Client activation keys when activating against volume KMS hosts. These setup keys are not necessary if you’re activating from clean Enterprise or Volume License media in general, and they won’t work if you’re attempting use versions of Windows that do not support volume activation. And they certainly won’t work if you don’t have access to a KMS activation server/host. If there’s no key listed for your edition of Windows, then it doesn’t support volume activation. To use these keys: • Open an elevated command prompt.

I am trying to activate MS Server 2012 R2 Standard and I'm having issues. I have installed the software from the ISO file I downloaded from the volume licensing site. I have learned that this file installs a KMS client version of the software by default. I have both KMS and MAK keys for this software but since I'm only installing 2 instances of the software, MAK makes the most sense to me. I don't have a KMS host running on my network so I need to use MAK client. However, I cannot get my MAK keys to work when I run a powershell command such as slmgr.vbs -ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx. I always get the same result which is an error message 0xc004e016 - on a computer running ms windows non-core edition, run slui.exe to display the error text.

Mar 16, 2017  Windows Server 2012 R2 ISO Updated February 2017 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials latest are available here with us. It is the latest and useful software updates for a variety of purposes, such as server virtualization, server management, and many other uses. In this post, I will show steps to activate Windows Server 2012 Evaluation to full version. DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management Tool) command line tool will be used to perform the upgrade of server from evaluation to full version.

Basically, its telling me that it doesn't like the license code. So, is there a separate ISO file for MAK client installations or is there a way to convert this KMS client to a MAK client. There is some documentation on this on google but they did not work. Just received the same error message. Can anyone offer some assistance for this issue? Calls to MS support have so far provided no help.

The reason you can't activate it is because you are not connected to the internet. I learn it the hard way. 2012 R2's error is very generic. When you put the license key, it try active the license right way. Because you dont have internet, it cant verify it. Here is for anyone who try activate over phone on machine that has no internect connection.

Here is the trick I finally figured out. You can't activate windows by phone because you have not put in the correct product key number. Here are the steps and I was able to activate over the phone.

I have not see any one post these steps yet. Dell inspiron 15 3878 windows 7 64. I spent 4 days with Microsoft trying to get some helps.

With other user's input and I was able to put together the complete steps. 1.To Change Product Key Number in a Command Prompt Open an elevated command prompt. In the elevated command prompt, type in the command below and press enter. NOTE: Substitute XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX in this command below with your actual product key number with dashes instead. Slmgr.vbs /ipk XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX 2.type slui.exe 4 to access the phone activation screen and follow the steps to activate over the phone.

As others have said, the installation media is always the same, and it's not tied to any specific licensing mode; you can use either KMS or MAK, regardless of where you downloaded the ISO from; you can also convert your system to a KMS client anytime, by entering the default key for a KMS client. The ISO you downloaded could have changed for a number of reasons; the most likely one is, the VL portal periodically refreshes the available OS images to include the most recent product updates. – Mar 4 '15 at 19:44.