Something is preventing us from communicating with our activation servers - error 0x87e10bc6

Question

Hello,
I'm running windows server 2019 standard as host server with hyper V which has been activated fine with a product key.

I installed another Windows server 2019 standard that runs on hyper V which I want to activate as well.

Each of my attempts to activate the second 2019 server gets an error :
**Something is preventing us from communicating with our activation servers, Wait a few minutes and then try again, with accompanying error codes 0x87e10bc6.
**
I searched and looked for many solutions which explained how to fix it - but none of them solved that issue.

Appreciate your support!

Oren

Answer 1

Hi,

I think the best approach will be to contact the licensing team for support as you have tried all the options - I will also check Date-Time settings, Region, Product Keys, Firewall and any Antivirus if they are stopping the traffic.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/existing-customer/activation-centers

Hope this helps.

JS

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