Welcome to Digital Technology Solutions. In todays post I will talk about fixing a issue with activating Windows 2012. I even called Microsoft... But that was a waste of time!
Questions/Symptoms
SYMPTOM:Error 0xc004e003
SYMPTOM:Cannot activate operating system.
SYMPTOM:After installing Windows Server 2012 Foundation, user cannot activate it.
Answer/Solution FIX:Use SLUI command for enter the real product key and process with the activation of the operating system.FIX:SLUI 3
Steps:
1. Open a CMD window (as administrator) and run the command: slui 3 (run it a few times) and wait 5 minutes
2. After running slui 3,the next window is seen where the real product key is entered (as shown in item 1 in image below) and activate (as shown in item 2 in image below) the operating system (if server has internet access).
Alan
Thanks so much for the info it worked great for me (Microsoft help isn’t very helpful!).
Cheers