{"id":504,"date":"2014-11-29T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T00:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2014-11-29T00:03:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T00:03:44","slug":"windows-10-tp-enterprise-activation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/windows-10-tp-enterprise-activation\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 TP Enterprise Activation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason the Technical Preview (TP) version of Windows 10 Enterprise arrives with a KMS activation setting. Type in <strong>slmgr \/dlv<\/strong> to get this info:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_506\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-506\" style=\"width: 488px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/slmgr_DLV_Output_KMS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-506\" src=\"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/slmgr_DLV_Output_KMS.jpg\" alt=\"slmgr \/dlv\" width=\"488\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/slmgr_DLV_Output_KMS.jpg 488w, http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/slmgr_DLV_Output_KMS-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">slmgr \/dlv<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This fails as it cannot find a relevant KMS server in your test network to validate against (you are using a testing network right??!!!).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To fix this, you need to force a conversion to a Retail key and use a Microsoft Recovery Key to do so, follow these short steps:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\n<li>Open an Elevated command prompt<\/li>\n<li>Type <strong>slmgr \u2013ipk PBHCJ-Q2NYD-2PX34-T2TD6-233PK\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>You see a pop notifcation advising Product Key installed succesfully<\/li>\n<li>Windows will automatically activate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-507\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/W10_Activated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-507\" src=\"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/W10_Activated-300x137.jpg\" alt=\"Activated!\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/W10_Activated-300x137.jpg 300w, http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/W10_Activated.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activated!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All sorted. Now check your activation status with<strong> slmgr \/dvi<\/strong> again and you see this:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_505\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-505\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/slmgr_DLV_Output_Retail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-505 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/slmgr_DLV_Output_Retail.jpg\" alt=\"slmgr \/dlv\" width=\"508\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/slmgr_DLV_Output_Retail.jpg 508w, http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/slmgr_DLV_Output_Retail-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">slmgr \/dlv<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason the Technical Preview (TP) version of Windows 10 Enterprise arrives with a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,212],"tags":[213,221,220,218,222,214,216,223,215,219,217,125,423,126],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p502c8-88","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}