Mick Murphy

If you have a legitimate Corporate Volume Licence OS, it is activated
remotely via a Microsoft Server.

Just where did you acquire it?

And it has to be reactivated every 6 months.
A Microsoft innitiative to stop piracy.

"dba-tamuk" wrote:

> So, yeah... Obviously, I can't activate the 'ole Windows Vista. Yet another
> Micro$haft product with bugs in it.
>
> I tried online activation, which gives me the error code:
> 0x8007232C
> DNS request not supported by name server.
>
> How do I found out which name server it could possibly be!? Using the name
> server request seems a bit redundant. Why did they opt for a DNS request,
> instead of using a static server?
>
> Second: I tried 'slui.exe 4' and no go... The drop-down box stays gray with
> 'Afghanistan' as the active selection. How can I bypass the locked drop-down
> box and get a number?
>
> If my ISP is blocking DNS requests, why should they trust someone and allow
> that traffic, when it's obviously being blocked for security reasons!?
> Obviously, Micro$haft didn't think this one through...
>