Now stop and restart the software licensing service, you can do this by running the command: net stop slsvc & net start slsvc If you check again you should now have the -skms option. Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper- V Windows Server 2008 Enterpris e without Hyper- V Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper- V
Under Windows Activation click on Change Product Key and then enter to one of the following client setup product keys (as noted in the deployment guide) You can do this through the System control panel. To get the -skms option back start by changing the product key.
If the -skms option has disappeared it means that a non-client setup product key has been applied to the server. This is particularly true if you entered a MAK or volume license key instead of a client setup product key. If the issue still persists, could you please post the event log and screenshot of the issue on the forum? In addition, please let me know the detail error message? Thanks. Note More information on troubleshooting volume activation can be found in the Volume Activation 2.0 Deployment Guide. If you must use Basic authentication, type the following URLs in the Proxy’s exception list: While this is not a default configuration for Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server, it is a valid configuration for many proxied networks. Microsoft KnowledgeBase article 921471, “Activation fails when you try to activate Windows Vista or Windows Longhorn Server over the Internet” () ) describes a situation in which the client attempting activation is behind a proxy server configured to use Basic authentication. If used, the MOM pack automatically collects these events on a configurable, scheduled basis, so that log wrapping is not an issue. Ensure that the KMS event log is configured with sufficient space to manage these events. During normal operation, the KMS machine generates a large number of 12290 events.