I had the exact same issue.
What you need to do to fix it:
Control Panel -> System
At the bottom is the status of your activation.
There should be a box to click to "change product key"
Click that and enter your exact same key you used before.
Magic happens and it works, just don't ask why.
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Jeff Utter
Thomas P. Carter wrote:
> Hello all,
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> I’m trying to activate a laptop that I’ve upgraded to an MSU
> volume-license copy of Vista Business, and I’m getting an error:
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> “A problem occurred when Windows tried to activate. Error code 0x8007232B.”
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> Looking into this error, I find that it happens because the activating
> system can’t find a Key Management Server for our volume license to
> validate our license. I’ve activated other Vista Business computers
> using this license before and it worked fine. Is there something I’m
> doing wrong, or is one of our campus servers not doing its job right
> now? Do we even HAVE a KMS machine?
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> *Thomas P. Carter, Ph.D.*
> Department of Chemistry
> Michigan State University
> East Lansing, MI 48824-1322
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Jeff Utter
Network Security
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