This is importent since everytime the Activate by Phone wizard is launced, a New long number/code is generated and is why you should be at the computer when calling the Activation call center.You can also go to and find the phone number for the Activation Call Center in your area, but as I mentioned, without the long number/code (from the Activate by Phone wizard), in which to give to the Activation rep, you will not be able to Activate.If your Vista does not have slmgr and/or if renaming tokens.dat makes your Vista require your to Reinstall Vista (Vs. You pick the country and it displays the phone number and the long number/code (that you tell to the Activation Rep) and an area to enter in another long number/code that the Activation rep will give back. This will bring up the 'Activate by Phone' wizard. The purpose of that step, is to force Vista to ask the user to re-enter (or reinstall) Vista's Product Key.To Activate by Phone, click the start button and type: slui 4 and hit the Enter key. If you do not have slmgr, then your Vista may be seriously broken and should be repaired or reinstalled.#2 You may want to confirm that it asked you to reinstall Vista. In this particular case, I had the -rilc option added to slmgr.vbs which instructs slmgr.vbs to 'Re-install all system license files'. It's job is (basically) to manage all Licensing related tasks in Vista. However, I have run the SLMGR (SLMGR/xpr) command on the server, and it shows that Windows Server Standard Edition is permanently activated (as expected.) Looks like I'll be calling Dell to see if there is something they can do.Īny thoughts on how to resolve this? Thanks.Hi Bob,#1 This concerns me, since slmgr.vbs is included in all Vista computers.

Research online suggests that this is related to Windows Activation. Even after patching, renaming the computer, & promoting it to domain controller, the warnings persist etc. The warnings appear a couple of times a day, and they began approximately as soon as starting the server for the first time. Error code: 0xC004F057 Log Name: ApplicationĬomputer: (my T320's server & domain name is displayed properly) Installation of the Proof of Purchase from the ACPI table failed. I've noticed this warning entry showing in the Application log since I first turned it on, even before I performed any changes:

The server is near one month in use as a domain controller. I have Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard running on a Dell PowerEdge T320.

Slmgr 0xc004d302