Comments on: SOLVED: How To Activate Windows 10 / Server 2016 Through Command Line

By: Elena Gilbert

Elena Gilbert — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 01:09:43 +0000

This is a great tutorial! I have been struggling to activate Windows 10 on my work computer for a while now. This is the solution I was looking for!

By: kucelkj

kucelkj — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 16:01:55 +0000

Thank you for good info and advice! -Ken

By: David Wagner

David Wagner — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 12:14:13 +0000

I did what JamieP suggested and it worked for me.

Using just SLUI (no option) from cmd line with Windows firewall turned off and it worked like a charm

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:43:14 +0000

Thank you this save my day. Windows Server 2016 had some issues when you try to install using the GUI.

By: Adri

Adri — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 09:37:23 +0000

This helped me getting Win2016 activated by using SLUI 3.

Thanks a lot and have a great day!

By: JamieP

JamieP — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 01:14:59 +0000

I ran in to the same issue recently after building 3 Server 2016 VM’s using a template in vSphere 5.5 .

I tried DISM /Online /Set-Edition:ServerDatacenter /ProductKey: /AcceptEula with no luck.

DISM /online /Get-CurrentEdition – showed me were running ServerDatacenter edition.

Using just SLUI (no option) from cmd line or SLUI 3 came back with error saying it couldn’t find the KMS server.

I turned off Windows firewall and ran SLUI (no option) again and it worked.

By: Jose

Jose — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 19:33:05 +0000

Hi,

Try this.

1. Open Notepad, enter commands below substituting the Xs for your Windows Server Key.

2. Save the file as a batch file.

3. Run batch file.

Commands:
C:\Windows\system32\slmgr.vbs -ipk XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
C:\Windows\system32\slmgr.vbs -ato

By: Z@!D

Z@!D — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 05:53:28 +0000

Thanks a lot for this info…
SLUI 4 helped me to activate WIN-16, you saved my time and efforts. Thanks once again 🙂

By: manuelc

manuelc — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:10:16 +0000

thanks for the information, it help me to activate win16 save me time and effort.

By: Ian Matthews

Ian Matthews — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 22:05:39 +0000

In reply to Steffen. TRANSLATION: For an original activation key, I suggest the 'license activation' site. I used a key from them and it works perfectly well. They respond pretty quickly, and can also assist you by Teamviewer if problem. I highly recommend it.