After the little hickup with ESXi I was running late so I kicked off the installation of Windows 2008 Enterprise server and left an instruction with my junior to put it on the domain, run the updates and activate it. I then went off to my afternoon of meetings, when I returned I was informed they couldn’t activate it as DNS was broken.

Like hell it is came my reply, to which I was shown the error message;

But wait there’s more information.. awesome;

Ok so it mentions DNS, but really this has got to be another case of Windows running home to mummy and just throwing out a random error and of course it is. This error comes about if you use Volume License media for your installation. To fix this you actually have to change your product key, and supply the correct MKS key from your agreement.

Providing the correct key magically makes the DNS issue go away and it’s all smiles again.