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Error activating Windows Vista build 5112
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| CHamlin 2005-08-16, 5:01 pm |
| I was away on vacation...came back and now the two Windows Vista machines are
requiring activation...fine. Problem is when you go to activate it comes back
with an error 80072EE7. I even tried typing in the activation key again as
that is an option. Neither seems to work properly and both take you back to
the same spot.
I can see where the physical connection is working as the card and hub seem
to respond to each other. I cannot check the software since I cannot log in
to look. If you cannot activate it does not let you log in.
I tried customer service...they send you to the activation department. I
tried the activation department and they send you to customer service. I have
posted on the Vista support groups but have not gotten any takers yet. Was
hoping that someone was monitoring this group which may help.
Thanks in advance.
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| Peter Foldes 2005-08-16, 9:59 pm |
| Look in the windows.update group for this error. A couple of posts there =
about it
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Peter
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>I was away on vacation...came back and now the two Windows Vista =
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> requiring activation...fine. Problem is when you go to activate it =
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| CHamlin 2005-08-17, 9:02 am |
| I am using the web based newsgroup reader and cannot find windows.update
newsgroup. Where is it located?
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| CHamlin 2005-08-17, 5:00 pm |
| I contacted MSDN customer service...they gave me a new key to try...problem
is that it is only good for a clean installation. This means that I will have
to try to reinstall all over again.
Does anyone have any way around this at all? This does not seem to be
workable at this point.
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| Gerry Hickman 2005-08-17, 5:00 pm |
| Hi CHamlin,
> Does anyone have any way around this at all? This does not seem to be
> workable at this point.
How will this Activation nonsense work in the context of Volume License
customers? I don't really want to find corporate installations suddenly
deciding they're not "Activated".
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Gerry Hickman (London UK)
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| Peter Foldes 2005-08-17, 9:59 pm |
| Set up OE as the newsreader. You will be much better off than that awful =
CDO interface
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/o...ssnewreader.htm
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Peter
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>I am using the web based newsgroup reader and cannot find =
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> newsgroup. Where is it located?
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| I have the same error that CHamlin reported. How do I access the
windows.update newsgroup that you indicated. I don't use Outlook Express, so
if you could just point me to the windows.update newsgroup it would be
appreciated.
MSDN customer support states that because Vista is a beta all my support for
this must come from the newsgroups. Thanks.
Jason
"Peter Foldes" wrote:
> Set up OE as the newsreader. You will be much better off than that awful CDO interface
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> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/o...ssnewreader.htm
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> Peter
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> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
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> "CHamlin" <CHamlin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:546D032E-DCA7-4AA3-B85C-1EB5D4F185D0@microsoft.com...
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| Hello,
Thanks for the reply. I ended up finding that the issue comes from not
resolving the URL for the Windows Update site. I finally found the
windows.update newsgroup to which Peter was referring:
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgr...twareupdatesvcs
Once I did a search for "80072EE7" in the Windows Update section, the first
hit got me in the correct direction. Thanks again.
"CHamlin" wrote:
> Jason;
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> After many searches I was able to find most of what I needed at:
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> http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvi...ps/default.aspx
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> You can view the newsgroups on-line at that site.
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