Problems activating Windows 2019

[Mike Leone]

SO I have a Win 2019 server on my DMZ, and it says Windows isn't activated. Probably true, since we activate Windows by joining AD, and we don't joing AD on the DMZ ...

So I changed the product key to be a MAK key (slmgr.vbs /ipk), and tried to activate.

And Windows is coming back with "Software Licensing Service reported that there is another activation attempt in progress for this sku. Please wiat for that attempt to finish".

I dunno where it got that idea from ... I research that a reboot usually clears stuck licesning queues, so I tried that, to no avail, So now I don't know where to go, since I don't know what key it is attempting to use. (I have a sneaking suspicion that my co-worker, now on vacation, tried changing to a MAK key - dunno if it was the same one I tried - and maybe it can't reach the MS activation servers?

Anyway way I can get more details so I can resolve this? How can I tell it to stop the previous attempt, nd try my key now?

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[Henry Awad]

Run slmgr /up (uninstalls the currently installed key

Then run slmgr/cpky to remove the product key from the registry

Reboot the server

Run slmgr /ipk <Your Product Key> /auto (force online activation)

Henry Awad

Principal Engineer

Technology Services

The Catholic University of America

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[Mike Leone]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2026 at 12:10 PM 'Henry Awad' via ntsysadmin <ntsys...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Run slmgr /up (uninstalls the currently installed key

 

Then run slmgr/cpky to remove the product key from the registry

Reboot the server

Run slmgr /ipk <Your Product Key> /auto (force online activation)

Did that. Still in notification mode. Notification reason the same - 0xC004F034.

 

Henry Awad

Principal Engineer

Technology Services

The Catholic University of America

On Mon, Jun 1, 2026, 12:01 PM Mike Leone <tur...@mike-leone.com> wrote:

SO I have a Win 2019 server on my DMZ, and it says Windows isn't activated. Probably true, since we activate Windows by joining AD, and we don't joing AD on the DMZ ...

So I changed the product key to be a MAK key (slmgr.vbs /ipk), and tried to activate.

And Windows is coming back with "Software Licensing Service reported that there is another activation attempt in progress for this sku. Please wiat for that attempt to finish".

I dunno where it got that idea from ... I research that a reboot usually clears stuck licesning queues, so I tried that, to no avail, So now I don't know where to go, since I don't know what key it is attempting to use. (I have a sneaking suspicion that my co-worker, now on vacation, tried changing to a MAK key - dunno if it was the same one I tried - and maybe it can't reach the MS activation servers?

Anyway way I can get more details so I can resolve this? How can I tell it to stop the previous attempt, nd try my key now?

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[Mike Leone]

AH HA! This time it failed with a different message ..

That may be my corporate firewall not allowing the traffic? Lemme go yell at my network engineer ....

[Wright, John M]

Can you try this?

 

Slmgr /upk

Slmgr /rearm

 

Then reboot the system and try /ipk again.

 

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On Mon, Jun 1, 2026 at 12:10 PM 'Henry Awad' via ntsysadmin <ntsys...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Run slmgr /up (uninstalls the currently installed key

 

 

 

 

 

Then run slmgr/cpky to remove the product key from the registry

 

Reboot the server

 

Run slmgr /ipk <Your Product Key> /auto (force online activation)

 

Did that. Still in notification mode. Notification reason the same - 0xC004F034.

 

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[Brian Illner]

Speaking of slmgr.vbs …. Has MS mentioned a replacement for it yet as they’ve depreciated VBScript and turned it into an Optional Feature?

 

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[Michael B. Smith]

Nope. Nor for any of the printer management scripts. Or for Office activation.

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