Win 2008 R2. Then I try to activate windows I see 0x80070005 error. slmgr -ipk key provide same error. slmgr -dli & dlv work correctly. Article ID: 2008385 is not helpfull.

This article may help. A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the license for this computer. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555488/en-us Regards, Dave Patrick .... Microsoft Certified Professional -Microsoft MVP [Windows]

This article applies to win2003 but not for 2008R2. And I've not upraded the server.

Yep, sorry about that. Did you try runas administrator? How to troubleshoot Volume Activation error codes on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista-based computers http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938450 Regards, Dave Patrick .... Microsoft Certified Professional -Microsoft MVP [Windows]

Yes, I've tried runas. I wasn't helpful.

I'm coming up on empty. Have you tried phone activation? You may also want to ask in the activations forum. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistaactivation/threads Regards, Dave Patrick .... Microsoft Certified Professional -Microsoft MVP [Windows]

Hi, I was looking at this error and it seems like one of the only ways that this script will generate an access denied error is if the user is not a member of the local administrators group or if UAC prevents the script from running in a non-elevated mode. I would recommend disabling UAC, http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Turn-User-Account-Control-on-or-off and then logging in to the system interactively with the built-in administrator account, and ensuring the command prompt is running as administrator and trying to run slmgr.vbs without any arguments. -- Mike Burr

When I tried to phone activation I receive a error too. UAC is turn off. I logon as build in administrator account. Slmgr without arguments work correctly - show help message. Slmgr with ipk argument give the same error.

Hi, Please click Start, click Accessories, click Run, type secpol.msc in the Open box, and then click OK. From the Local Security Settings console tree, click Local Policies, and then Security Options. Make sure settings related to UAC are set as the picture below: After that, run the slmgr.vbs command from an elevated command prompt: right-click cmd.exe, and then select Run as Administrator. If the issue persists, please open Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Change User Account Control settings, choose “Never notify me when:” and click OK. What’s the result? Tim Quan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

I did that. After that slmgr -ipk give the same error.

Hi, Thank you for the reply. Then I suggest referring to the suggestions in the following threads: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproinstall/thread/563cbcef-11fc-4d8d-af4d-f84f9f6f68be http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7install/thread/90fb852d-a507-4c76-a672-0be2ecbdb320 (last post in this thread) Hope it helps. Tim Quan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.