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and if you run slui to display the error text what do you get?<br />
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What type of installation key do you have MAK, KMS, Volume, Retail, OEM?
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and if you run slui to display the error text what do you get?

What type of installation key do you have MAK, KMS, Volume, Retail, OEM?

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Check out <a href="http://thenubbyadmin.com/2011/01/03/solving-the-issue-the-filename-directory-name-or-volume-label-syntax-is-incorrect-0x8007007b/" rel="ugc">this guide</a> for Win7. The same should apply to the server as well.
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Check out this guide [http://thenubbyadmin.com/2011/01/03/solving-the-issue-the-filename-directory-name-or-volume-label-syntax-is-incorrect-0x8007007b/] for Win7. The same should apply to the server as well.

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And if you run slui to display the error text what do you get? &nbsp;<br />
see here <a href="http://screencast.com/t/OgsRmi4M" rel="ugc">http://screencast.com/t/OgsRmi4M</a><br />
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What type of installation key do you have MAK, KMS, Volume, Retail, OEM?<br />
&nbsp;MAK from Volume
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And if you run slui to display the error text what do you get?  
see here http://screencast.com/t/OgsRmi4M [http://screencast.com/t/OgsRmi4M]

What type of installation key do you have MAK, KMS, Volume, Retail, OEM?
 MAK from Volume

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After installing Server 2012 and click the Activate Windows button, the error is returned:<br />
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Error: 0x8007007B<br />
&quot;The file name, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect”<br />
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Following KB 929826<br />
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929826" rel="ugc">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929826</a><br />
with &nbsp;slmgr -ipk &lt;var&gt;xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxx<wbr />xx-xxxxx &nbsp;<br />
returns this see here &lt;/var&gt;<a href="http://screencast.com/t/LO7lSZwByO" rel="ugc">http://screencast.com/t/LO7lSZwByO</a>
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After installing Server 2012 and click the Activate Windows button, the error is returned:

Error: 0x8007007B
"The file name, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect”

Following KB 929826
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929826
with  slmgr -ipk <var>xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx  
returns this see here </var>http://screencast.com/t/LO7lSZwByO

Cannot Activate Server 2012 Error: 0x8007007B &quot;The file name, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect”

The Microsoft Server topic includes all of the legacy versions of the operating system, including the Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows Home Server versions.

Microsoft Server OS

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Cannot Activate Server 2012 Error: 0x8007007B &quot;The file name, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect”

Cannot Activate Server 2012 Error: 0x8007007B "The file name, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect”