{"id":1193,"date":"2014-12-02T09:45:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T22:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2014-12-02T09:49:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T22:49:04","slug":"activate-windows-server-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/2014\/12\/02\/activate-windows-server-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"How to activate Windows Server 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ntsbl-3954044630\" class=\"ntsbl-before-content ntsbl-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6288941070289539\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px;\" \ndata-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6288941070289539\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"9356781486\"><\/ins> \n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><h2>Issue<\/h2>\n<p>Windows Server 2012 will not activate when you try to use the UI to activate a license key.<\/p>\n<h2>Solution<\/h2>\n<p>Open a command prompt and run the following command<\/p>\n<p>[csharp]<br \/>\nslmgr.vbs \/ipk &lt;license key&gt;<br \/>\n[\/csharp]<br \/>\nWhere &lt;license key&gt; is your server license.<\/p>\n<p>Press enter and wait about 30 seconds and you should receive a message saying &#8220;Installed product key <license key> successfully<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue Windows Server 2012 will not activate when you try to use the UI to activate a license key. Solution Open a command prompt and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ntsblog.homedev.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}