Windows Server 2016 Standard - Activation Issues

[luke_mk1]

Hello,

Have been having issues activating x 2 VM's with a ROK license for 2016, both VM's are on the same host and were initially built using the Evaluation ISO

At first the GUI failed to work, therefore went down the route of DISM, first command failed which had our product key (See below)

Dism /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /AcceptEula /ProductKey:OUR PRODUCT KEY

After some reading i found the best way to move forward was to activate it via a KMS key, therefore i ran the below commands in the sequence

Dism /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /AcceptEula /ProductKey:WC2BQ-8NRM3-FDDYY-2BFGV-KHKQY

slmgr /ipk WC2BQ-8NRM3-FDDYY-2BFGV-KHKQY

This stated the product key has been successfully installed, now i cannot seem to switch it over to our product key purchased from a ROK license, i've attempted the following commands

Dism /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /AcceptEula /ProductKey:OUR PRODUCT KEY

Will not run due to the edition already being Server Standard, if i run a Dism /online /GetTargetEditions i can only upgrade further to Datacentre, if i run the DISM /online /Get-CurrentEdition i can see i am on ServerStandard

I've tried the command slmgr /ipk OUR PRODUCT KEY but receive an error 0xC004F050 The Software Licensing Service reported that the product key is invalid


Would appreciate the assistance in resolving this issue


Thanks,

Luke

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