HPE had to replace motherboard on new server and now my legal copy of Windows Server 22 won't activate.

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My business purchased a new server about 6 months ago. Last week the motherboard failed. HPE sent us a new board which we installed and now the server is working but it has an "Activate Windows" watermark on the screen. We went through all of the steps to activate it as well as the troubleshooting and it still won't activate. Trying to get help from Microsoft is impossible and takes us through an endless series of steps that get us nowhere. They even have a cutesy little screen that comes up after trying everything (see below) that acknowledges that it's probably Microsoft's fault but the

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