{"id":4919,"date":"2020-12-04T21:03:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T21:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=4919"},"modified":"2020-12-04T21:03:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T21:03:28","slug":"could-not-activate-windows-license-on-server-in-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/could-not-activate-windows-license-on-server-in-azure","title":{"rendered":"Could not activate Windows License on server in Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we had moved some onpremise Server 2016 machines to Azure using ASR. When trying to activate them using the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/virtual-machines\/troubleshooting\/troubleshoot-activation-problems\">Microsoft steps<\/a><\/p><ul><li>cscript c:\\windows\\system32\\slmgr.vbs \/dlv<\/li><li>cscript c:\\windows\\system32\\slmgr.vbs \/ipk WC2BQ-8NRM3-FDDYY-2BFGV-KHKQY<\/li><li>cscript c:\\windows\\system32\\slmgr.vbs \/ato<\/li><\/ul><p>It did not work, we had to use <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/previous-versions\/windows\/it-pro\/windows-server-2012-R2-and-2012\/dn303421(v=ws.11)?redirectedfrom=MSDN\">Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA)<\/a><\/p><ol><li><pre class=\"has-inner-focus\" tabindex=\"0\"><code style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-family: SFMono-Regular, Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier, monospace; font-size: 1em; outline-color: inherit; direction: ltr; position: relative; border: 0px; padding: 0px; display: block; line-height: 19px;\" data-author-content=\"slmgr \/ipk &lt;AVMA_key&gt;\r\n\">slmgr \/ipk C3RCX-M6NRP-6CXC9-TW2F2-4RHYD\r\n<\/code><\/pre><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we had moved some onpremise Server 2016 machines to Azure using ASR. When trying to activate them using the Microsoft stepscscript c:\\windows\\system32\\slmgr.vbs \/dlvcscript c:\\windows\\system32\\slmgr.vbs \/ipk WC2BQ-8NRM3-FDDYY-2BFGV-KHKQYcscript [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3407,3406,1464,687,1754,2492],"class_list":["post-4919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-activate","tag-automatic-virtual-machine-activation-avma","tag-azure","tag-microsoft","tag-server-2016","tag-windows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4920,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions\/4920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}