Windows Server 2012 Won’t Activate: DNS Server Not Found

September 6, 2012 2:01 pm / 2 Comments /

Ran into this one today. Problem is I used a KMS key instead of a MAK key.

Doh!

At an elevated command prompt, type the following command, and then press Enter:

slmgr -ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx (your mak key here)

Reference: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929826

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2 Thoughts on “Windows Server 2012 Won’t Activate: DNS Server Not Found”

  1. Fred on September 14, 2012 at 7:09 pm said:

    Thanks a bunch, that did the trick!

  2. Branden Grant on October 16, 2012 at 8:47 am said:

    I installed Server 2012 Std and it had a KMS key already associated with it. This helped change it to a MAK key – thanks for the help

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