How does one correct this error message?Source: Microsoft-Windows-Security-Licensing-SLCDate: 10/7/2008 1:22:21 PMEvent ID: 12293Task Category: NoneLevel: ErrorKeywords: ClassicUser: N/AComputer: XXXXXXXXXXXXXDescription:Publishing the Key Management Service (KMS) to DNS in the 'XXXXXXXX' domain failed.Info:hr=0x80072338

Hi, Please follow these steps for Configuring KMS Publishing to DNS: If you are using only one KMS host, you may not need to configure any permission, because the default behavior is to allow a computer to create an SRV record and then update it. However, if you have more than one KMS hosts (the usual case), the others will be unable to update the SRV record unless SRV default permissions are changed. This procedure is an example that has been implemented in the Microsoft environment. It is not the only way to achieve the desired result. Detailed steps for each of the tasks are not provided, because they may differ from one organization to another. If you are a domain administrator and want to delegate the ability to carry out the following steps to others in your organization, optionally create a security group in Active Directory and add the delegates, for example, create a group called Key Management Service Administrators, and then delegate permissions to manage the DNS SRV privileges to this security group. The remainder of this procedure assumes that either a domain administrator or delegate is performing the steps. - Create a global security group in Active Directory that will be used for your KMS hosts, for example, Key Management Service Group. - Add each of your KMS hosts to this group. They must all be joined to the same domain. Once the first KMS host is created, it should create the SRV record. Add each KMS host to this security group. If the first computer is unable to create the SRV record, it may be because your organization has changed the default permissions. In this case, you will need to create the SRV record manually with the name _VLMCS._TCP (service name and protocol) for the domain. Set the time-to-live (TTL to 60 minutes). Set the permissions for the SRV group to allow updates by members of the global security group. You can create the KMS record by hand, scroll down to "To manually create a KMS SRV record in a Microsoft DNS server": http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303280.aspx Hope this helps.

So we need to run an KMS server even through we got a license for Windows 2008. Currently we have no KMS server within our domain. Will our server quit working if we don't run a KMS server?

Hello Sabo_e,You are running a KMS host machine( that machine was installed with the KMS host product key), that is what is giving you the error message. When that KMS host machine is attempting to register with DNS and fails that error message is generated. If you are not planning on using KMS host machines in your company, you should be using a MAK key rather than the KMS host key in your machines.Thanks, Darrell Gorter[MSFT] This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

Ok I understood all of the above apart from: Set the permissions for the SRV group to allow updates by members of the global security group. Can you outline how to do the above R

Hello, This problem reboot your server automatically? Regards, Sato.