Error 0xC004F074 "No Key Management Service (KMS) could be contacted"

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Unable to activate window server 2022 datacenter version getting an error message

Activating Windows(R), ServerDatacenter edition (ef6cfc9f-8c5d-44ac-9aad-de6a2ea0ae03) ...
Error: 0xC004F074 The Software Licensing Service reported that the computer could not be activated. No Key Man
agement Service (KMS) could be contacted. Please see the Application Event Log for additional information.

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Answer 1

Hello,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A.

Based on the description, I understand your question is related to KMS.

According to the error Error: 0xC004F074 The Software Licensing Service reported that the computer could not be activated. No Key Man

agement Service (KMS) could be contacted. Please see the Application Event Log for additional information.

It seems your machine cannot connect to the KMS server.

please try run below commands to manually specify the IP address of the KMS host, and then activate the KMS clients:

slmgr /skms <IP address of the KMS host>
slmgr /ato

Have a nice day.

Best Regards,

Molly

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