After installing a copy of Windows Server 2008 purchased through Open Licensing I got the occasional prompt saying that the copy of Windows wasn’t activated. The text of the message was:
Windows could not be activated
Key management services (KMS) host could not be located in domain name system (DNS), please have you system administrator verify that a KMS is published correctly in DNS.
Error:
0×8007232B
Description:
DNS name does not exist.
A quick Google first led me to the KB article 938450 and some complicated instructions of resolving the issue were included. I was about to post in PTOC for some extra advice when I Googled just the error code and came across this blog post by Darcy Lussier. Turns out the only thing you need to do is re-enter your product key in the option available when right-clicking Computer and choosing Properties.
I followed those simple steps and a few UAC prompts later and Windows successfully activated. Thanks Darcy!
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