I have a windows 2008 instance on the VPC,
Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit, i tried using to activate OS following this treatment:Slmgr.vbs /skms 169.254.169.250 Slmgr.vbs /atobut it didn't work,
Windows 7 X86, it says the key server is unreachable.Any suggestion? Working great and I can see it activated - many thanks
Mike I'm having this same issue and using the information in this and other references thread with no success. Would the IP address be different for us-west-1a?
C:>Slmgr.vbs /skms 169.254.169.250
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.7
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Key Management Service machine name set to 169.254.169.250 successfully.
C:>slmgr.vbs /ato
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.7
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Activating Windows Server(R),
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 Serial, ServerDatacenter edition (68b6e220-cf09-466b-92d3-
45cd964b9509) ...
Error: 0xC004F039 The computer could not be activated. The Key Management Servic
e could not be reached.