{"id":3676,"date":"2017-08-23T10:10:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T09:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2017-08-23T10:10:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T09:10:04","slug":"vmware-vsphere-how-activate-windows-server-oem-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomaskalabis.com\/wordpress\/vmware-vsphere-how-activate-windows-server-oem-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware vSphere &#8211; How to activate Windows Server OEM licence in virtual machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>VMware vSphere &#8211; How to activate Windows Server OEM licence in virtual machine<\/h3>\n<p>I have installed a Windows Server 2012 R2 with a Fujitus OEM licence on ESXi 6.5, but when i try to activate this operating system i got always an error with licence key. The solution is add following lines to the .vmx file of affected VM.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true  \">SMBIOS.reflectHost = \"TRUE\"\r\n\r\nSMBIOS.noOEMStrings = \"TRUE\"\r\n\r\nsmbios.addHostVendor = \"TRUE\"<\/pre>\n<p>now you can try activate Windows via Command line:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">c:windowssystem32slmgr.vbs \/ipk \u201cyour product Key\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 &lt;\u2014without quotes (but enter in CAPS with dashes)\r\n\r\nc:windowssystem32slmgr.vbs \/ato<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMware vSphere &#8211; How to activate Windows Server OEM licence in virtual machine I have installed a Windows Server 2012 R2 with a Fujitus OEM licence on ESXi 6.5, but &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,222,12,229],"tags":[100,280],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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