Server 2003 activation

Hi 

I am also trying to activate Microsoft Dynamics RMS , which is out of support. 

I think they have switched the activation servers off. 

This is a headache , because there are many clients running legacy systems.

Hopefully we can get an answer from Microsoft.

Kind Regards

Wrong Community for Servers.

And we don't work for Microsoft; we are mainly volunteers here.

Ask in a later Server forum where I'm sending you to.

Your question is beyond the scope of these Forums

This Community is mainly for home users and their computer problems, not business systems.

Kindly post your question in the TechNet Server Forums.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/home?category=windowsserver

TechNet Forums:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home

MSDN Forums:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home

Cheers.

Hi 

I am also trying to activate Microsoft Dynamics RMS , which is out of support. 

I think they have switched the activation servers off. 

This is a headache , because there are many clients running legacy systems.

Hopefully we can get an answer from Microsoft.

Kind Regards

The same applies to you:

Your Question is outside the scope of this Community.

Kindly repost in the Microsoft Dynamics Community.

https://community.dynamics.com/f

Choose the correct Forum from the list for your particular problem:

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Microsoft Dynamics AX

Microsoft Dynamics GP

Microsoft Dynamics NAV

Microsoft Dynamics RMS

Microsoft Dynamics SL

Microsoft Dynamics Marketing

General Microsoft Dynamics Questions

Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step

Partner Post-Sales, Licensing, and Operations

Partner Sales & Marketing

Parature, from Microsoft

Convergence

Microsoft XAL

Microsoft Dynamics Small Business Manager

Cheers.

Well, I was referred to this site by two "customer service" reps after calling the activation phone number. Both were adamant that this is the place to get help and that "our technicians there will be able to help you".

So in essence, as usual, these people work of a script, can't think from 12 to midday and just rattle of nonsense, regardless whether it is applicable or not. 

If MS is unwilling to activate those old bits of software, then they should release a patch which gets rid of the activation requirement. This is an impossible situation they're putting people into. Users have a valid licence for a software but can't use it because Microsoft is unwilling/unable to get things fixed.

So I see Microsoft's customer service is of the same quality as their software is.

They do work off a script.

They are all outsourced contractor employees.

As an example when XP and later Vista support ended Microsoft said they would always support Activation for any problems with them.

They pulled the links and these so-called "technicians" refer them to us here to activate it for them.

Microsoft is the one who says yay or nay to activation, not any of us that are left here and a lot of us have bailed out..

As I said we don't work for Microsoft. We are fellow computer users who come here in our own free time to help others for free and a few of us have been doing it for years.

This is the advice I give them in XP now:

When Microsoft ended support for XP, they were quick to  say we will continue to re-activate XP if you have to reinstall blah, blah, blah.

But over the last few years they have dodged the issue and deleted the links about this.

Contact them by one of these methods and keep contacting them until they do.

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To contact Microsoft Support:

What can we help you with?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us

Contact support        

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/contact-support

Also: https://partner.support.services.microsoft.com/en-au/contact/menu/software/windows/setup/

"Microsoft office locations around the world"

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worldwide.aspx

"Global Customer Service phone numbers"

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/13948/global-customer-service-phone-numbers

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Cheers from Qld.

Thanks Bill.

I've actually been able to get it activated after searching the depths of the Internet. It took two days to filter the good information from the bad. 

FYI, there are two tick boxes in the internet settings called "Check for publisher's certificate revocation" and "Check for server certificate revocation". Untick both, reboot the machine et voila, activation works. Figured that one out after I extended the grace period from the remaining day to 30 days to buy myself some time. I was tempted to run this extension as a scheduled task every 29 days.

I don't think I envy you guys in light of all this. You have to put up with grumpy people like me who get sent here on a wild goose chase.

Cheers also from Qld

Good to see another Queenslander here :)

Glad you got it sorted out OK.

Cheers.