Sunday, September 16, 2012

Windows 8 Enterprise Activation Issue

Problem:

Microsoft released the final version of Windows 8 to developers through MSDN subscriptions a pair of weeks ago. I’ve been using the Consumer Preview version since they released it and was anxious for the final version. So I quickly asked the chief to buy an MSDN subscription for our company and downloaded Windows 8 Enterprise. Everything installed as expected and was working as expected. Until I went to activate Windows that is. It wouldn’t activate and kept giving me an error "The filename, directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect (0x8007007B)".

Solution:

1) At your Metro Start screen right click (or touch) the tile named "Developer Command Prompt for VS2012" (or if you haven't install VS, it's probably named just something like "Command Prompt") and select from AppBar "Run as Administrator".
2) type slmgr.vbs /ipk "YOUR_NEW_LEGAL_KEY_FOR_ENTERPRISE"

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