I am trying to activate MS Office 2010 Pro Plus. I have installed a KMS server that appears to have no issues. The clients will not active. We get an exit code of 0XC004F056. Thanks for any help. Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ---Processing-------------------------- --------------------------------------- SKU ID: 6f327760-8c5c-417c-9b61-836a98287e0c LICENSE NAME: Office 14, OfficeProPlus-KMS_Client edition LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 14, VOLUME_KMSCLIENT channel LICENSE STATUS: ---NOTIFICATIONS--- ERROR CODE: 0xC004F056 ERROR DESCRIPTION: The Software Licensing Service reported that the computer could not be activated using the Key Management Service (KMS). Last 5 characters of installed product key: H3GVB --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- ---Exiting----------------------------- nslookup -type=srv _vlmcs._tcp Server: dns1.ad.aaa.edu Address: 10.x.x.254 _vlmcs._tcp.HW.aaa.EDU SRV service location: priority = 0 weight = 0 port = 1688 svr hostname = hwkms1.hw.aaa.edu hwkms1.hw.aaa.edu internet address = 10.x.x.41

Have you check this blog article. http://blogs.technet.com/b/odsupport/archive/2010/06/10/when-activating-office-2010-you-receive-the-error-code-0x80070005.aspx Thanks

Hi, Did you install the Office 2010 KMS extension? (Available here) You can double-check if you did (or just to confirm it was successful) by running the following command locally on the KMS host: cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /dli all You'd be looking for something like the following in the resulting output. If it's there, then then the Office 2010 KMS extension is correctly installed and activated. Name: Microsoft Office 2010, KMSHost edition Description: Microsoft Office 2010 KMS, VOLUME_KMS channel Partial Product Key: XYXY4 License Status: Licensed Key Management Service is enabled on this machine Current count: 10 Listening on Port: 1688 DNS publishing enabled KMS priority: Normal Key Management Service cumulative requests received from clients Total requests received: 1957 Failed requests received: 778 Requests with License Status Unlicensed: 0 Requests with License Status Licensed: 923 Requests with License Status Initial grace period: 173 Requests with License Status License expired or Hardware out of tolerance: 11 Requests with License Status Non-genuine grace period: 0 Requests with License Status Notification: 72 Cheers, Lain