Vista Activaton - ??

[Jouni Jokelainen]

I installed Vista Busines and activated it succesfully. When doing this
Vista was in workgroup. I then joined Vista in our domain. After that Vista
said that Vista is not activated. When i tried to activate it, error message
(0xc004f039)was returned saying that KMS server was not found. In need we
have no KMS server since we are just testing Vista. Ok i joined Vista back
to workgroup and tried to activate...error message was returned saying that
DNS name was not found (0x8007232b) ??. What DNS name..KMS server DNS name
or what. I then typed key again and tried to activate..this time i was
returned error message saying my key was allready in use. What am i missing
here?

 

[Sascha Benjamin Jazbec]

a kms is a local pc in your company where one can activate
vista-clients.needs volume-keys.
KMS license go together with volume licenses for vista clients, enterprise
and business editions.

standard activation against Microsoft needs retail keys or MAK ( Multiple
Activations )

make clear if you have bought vista at a store (like for private use) or use
vista from a VolumeLicense within a corporation or like.

SJ /germany

 

[Jouni Jokelainen]

This key was received from my companys IT-deparment by email and i dont know
if its MAK or VLK. I have succesfully activated severall PC´s with this key.
Problem arised when i joined Vista to domain. We are not going to install
KMS server just yet. I wonder if this key is MAK type and its limit is
reached.