You need to go to Control Panel > System then at the bottom select Change Product Key. This will allow you to enter your VL key which will result in Vista activating via the web. Definitely not well documented unfortunately.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Cline Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 11:45 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Vista Activation and KMS I was testing out the RTM of Vista Enterprise last night and noticed I didn't have to enter a key at any point during the install. When Windows tried to activate, it told me there was a DNS error, so I suspected it looks for a local activation server by default. Sure enough, in the DNS cache was a lookup for a nonexistent _vlmcs._tcp.domain.com. Upon further research, it appears Microsoft has not released KMS yet, and I couldn't find any option to activate directly with Microsoft. For the moment, is telephone activation the only option? Brian Cline, Applications Developer Department of Information Technology G&P Trucking Company, Inc. 803.936.8595 Direct Line 800.922.1147 Toll-Free (x8595) 803.739.1176 Fax
