
06:03:47: Ec2WindowsActivate: DNS Query to zone '' was unsuccessful. 06:03:47: Ec2WindowsActivate: Attempting to discover settings from zone: 06:03:47: Ec2WindowsActivate: Activation failed with error code: 0xc004f074 06:03:26: Ec2WindowsActivate: Activation failed with error code: 0xc004f074

06:03:04: Ec2WindowsActivate: Activation failed with error code: 0xc004f074 06:02:22: Ec2WindowsActivate: Clearing KMS Server Name. 06:02:21: Ec2WindowsActivate: Activation failed with error code: 0xc004f074 06:02:21: Waiting for background plugin to complete: Ec2WindowsActivate Here's the output from the Ec2ConfigLog from the date that the activation error started to appear: I'd like to avoid that if at all possible unless anyone knows that the issue will be fixed by doing this? PV driver appears to be v7.2.4.1 and updating it, especially for a DC, seems quite hairy. I haven't tried changing the key, as the partial key output generated by runningĪnd receive a success message, but then when I actually try to activate with: I have tried completely disabling the Windows firewall but that made no difference.ġ 09:27:00Z: EC2 Agent: Ec2Config service v There are no outbound firewall rules that I can see in the security groups or VPC.

However, I cannot ping them or telnet to port 1688.

They've been fine since 2014, but all of a sudden when I logged into two of them this morning I was told that "Your Windows license will expire soon".Īfter googling and looking at the AWS help and forum, I followed the instructions here: We have a fairly small (4) set of Windows 2012 EC2 instances running in AWS. I'd appreciate some help with an issue I've just noticed.
