Windows Vista Enterprise and Windows Vista Enterprise with SP1 are designed to be activated with Key Management Service (KMS) by default. In order to activate using the Multiple Activation Key (MAK), you will need to follow these steps after installation completes:
- Go to Start
- Click Control Panel
- Choose System and Maintenance
- Choose System
- At the bottom is Windows activation
- Click Change product key (do not select automatic activation as this is the KMS option)
- Use the key titled Windows Vista Enterprise
- Click Next
- After a minute you should see the Activation was successful confirmation
If you try to activate without changing KMS to MAK, you will receive this error message:
Activation Error: Code 0x8007232b
DNS Name does not exist
Important Information Regarding the Update for Windows Vista Files
Additional information—what’s included in this update, full systems requirements, and installation instructions—should be reviewed in KB952627 prior to download and installation.
Install this update to enable remote management of a Windows Server 2008 computer that is running the Hyper-V role. All users of the Hyper-V role should apply this update. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.
This update applies to the following Windows Vista editions:
- Windows Vista Business-Retail
- Windows Vista Business-Volume License
- Windows Vista Enterprise
- Windows Vista Service Pack 1
- Windows Vista Ultimate
In addition, this update supports all of the 36 Windows Vista languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese-Hong Kong SAR, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Taiwan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Portuguese-Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian.