I work for a company that doesn't give us Windows Disks and Keys. The central IT group develops standard images, which have an MAK baked in, and gives us those canned images to use.
I had a server that was running, nice and happy, from one of these images. Windows was successfully activated, and life was good.
I had to divert this server to run some experiments with Linux. When those experiments were concluded, I reinstalled my Windows image on this server. I tried to activate it online from the baked-in key, and it failed, with an error to the effect that 'the Multi-Activation Key has reached its limit'.
I tried to use the 'call Microsoft on the phone and walk through the activation manually', but clicjing that link from the activation screen tries to bring up Internet Explorer, which is not on this system as this is a 'secured baseline'. System doesn't have Java, either, which I think is required for those pages.
I already have a ticket open with my company, but while I'm waiting for them to get back to me, I thought I'd check here and see if anyone has any ideas.
Version is Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Standard Edition with SP1.
