Activate server message
We have a server (Windows Server 2012 Datacenter - build 9200) that from time to time will display a message embedded into the desktop backgound to active the server - - the message will eventually go away after a few minutes or even after a reboot it will go away. In most cases certain folks will get that message and others will not. It is very sporadic and when the message is on the desktop it appears that this may have ties to certain task schedule tasks locking up. Has anyone seen this or heard of this?
noxcho
Is this message from Microsoft? Can you catch a screen shot of it? And finally - is the server activated?
Is your Server registered and activated against a KMS in your environment?
Is this this OS from MS Volume License site?
How many servers do you have in your environment?
If more than 1 are any others this happening to?
If you run SLMGR /DLI and see post your results.
Is this this OS from MS Volume License site?
How many servers do you have in your environment?
If more than 1 are any others this happening to?
If you run SLMGR /DLI and see post your results.
If you're using KMS, is there a failure on your KMS server or intermittent connection? Maybe a DNS issue? Are you relying on a KMS SRV record in DNS or KMS auto-discovery?
Also, please try running slmgr /dlv, which is more detailed output than slmgr /dli and advise if an error message is shown.
Also, please try running slmgr /dlv, which is more detailed output than slmgr /dli and advise if an error message is shown.
ASKER
This server is not getting it's key from KMS and it is registered - - we think that the issues we are seeing with this server may be tied to Trend Deep Security - - we have taken it off of trend and added Symantec onto the server - - I also ran a sfc /scannow command and it did find some corrupt files and fixed them and we rebooted the server and so far everything seems to be fine we will wait and see if it happens again. We actually had a server that was running Sage (for accounting) and Trend seemed to something similar to that server - we took it off Trend and and pushed Symantec to the server and for 3 weeks now we have not see any issues that the server was experiencing prior to moving it off of Trend.
ASKER
Trend seems to be the cause of this issue - - we took the server off of Trend deep Security and pushed Symantec to it and this seems to have resolved the issue
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