Vista Activation: 0×8007232B – DNS name does not exist
If you have installed a Volume licence version on Vista business / Enterprise, you may get the below error message when trying to active the product
a pretty useless error message, but it does have a very easy fix, simply go to computer and then ‘change Product Key’ enter in the same product key that you had previously used for the VISTA installation.
That’s it it should activate within seconds.
June 15th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Cheers, worked a treat on 2008 server
June 18th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Thanks – worked fine on Server 2008
June 18th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Thanks, it worked like a charm!
June 30th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Nice post
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Oh sweet merciful crud. That’s all it took. Thank you so much for describing the fix in 25 words or less. The knowledge base article on this issue made me want to yell at kittens.
July 9th, 2008 at 7:06 am
Works fine! that’s so interesting to have such an alternative route…. but it works
July 12th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Worked, thanks alot!
July 18th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Thanks for this, worked fine on my 2008 box. Stupid Microsoft.
August 5th, 2008 at 2:43 am
NICE! Thanks. I was about ready to just nuke this system. And thanks to Google for leading me to your post.
August 27th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Nice!
Worked on Win2k8 Server for me as well… strange thing, always thought some weired proxy setting was in my way but it was only such a little thing!
Thanks
September 20th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Thank you very much. I have a Windows 2008 server with Vista Ultimate 64 clients and this worked perfectly.
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May 18th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Thank you. Worked a charm.
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October 5th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Works on Windows 7 as well.
Tell me why Microsoft Customer Support doesn’t tell the same nice way .. I was instructed to remove the internet connection, try different activation methods, call customer service again, have the confirmation generated automatically.
Instead, I tried google. Or bing. And now it’s activated.
July 3rd, 2010 at 9:46 am
The proper files were still web web. I thought it was strange, and even after changing the group as your instructions said, there was no change in how this displayed in both putty and filezilla. However, I tested uploading to my blog and it worked like a charm! I am not sure what is going on with the group thing, but somehow it must have worked. I’m curious as to what the deal is with that. In any case, Thank you so much!
September 3rd, 2010 at 5:34 am
It’s nice to find web-sites with info and thx for the share that will you have done. Normally, I’m pretty surprised, but etc…
October 1st, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Shiit. Now I have to do this on a lot of school computers.. Damn.
Thanks for the solution anyway!
November 23rd, 2010 at 7:38 pm
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