{"id":1449,"date":"2012-09-12T16:15:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T16:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2012-09-12T16:15:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T16:15:16","slug":"windows-8-activation-error-dns-name-does-not-exist-error-code-0x8007232b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 Activation Error: DNS name does not exist Error Code: 0x8007232B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on where the installation media was obtained from (MSDN, TechNet subscription download,..)\u00a0the activation wizard\u00a0 by default will look for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/licensing\/existing-customers\/product-activation-faq.aspx\">Key Management Service <\/a>(KMS) host on your internal network. It will not try to activate using the internet to reach Microsoft Activation servers.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is to manually change the product key to a Multiple Activation Key (MAK) most likely provided with\u00a0your MSDN or TechNet subscription.<\/p>\n<p>To change the product key, use the\u00a0<strong>slmgr.vbs<\/strong> script included with your\u00a0Windows installation.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Run the command prompt as an administrator<\/li>\n<li>Enter <code>slmgr -ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx<\/code> where <code>xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx<\/code> is your product key.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on where the installation media was obtained from (MSDN, TechNet subscription download,..)\u00a0the activation wizard\u00a0 by default will look for a Key Management Service (KMS) host on your internal network. It will not try to activate using the internet to reach Microsoft Activation servers. The solution is to manually change the product key to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"close","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2,147],"tags":[206],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-truques-dicas","category-windows-8","tag-windows-8","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}