Aidan Finn, IT Pro

I installed Windows 8 Enterprise (RTM) on my Build slate PC last night and I noticed in PC Settings that the sucker would fail to activate:

"Windows can’t activate right now." Error Code: 0x8007232B

It appears that the Enterprise edition defaults to searching for a KMS to activate on, as you’d expect in an enterprise network.  I mentioned it to one of the guys in work and he just posted me the fix from the TechNet Forums:

1. Search for CMD
2. Run it as administrator (elevated command prompt)
3. Run slmgr.vbs –ipk <YOUR_PRODUCT_KEY>, e.g slmgr.vbs –ipk ABCDE-12345-ABCDE-12345-ABCDE

And Bob’s your Uncle!

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