You can also subscribe without commenting. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Skip to content. Run slmgr. Additional options are not presented when using slmgr. Activation over the Internet may be blocked if the proxy server requires user authentication. Because activation requests do not present the user's credentials to the proxy server, Microsoft recommends not using Basic Authentication with ISA Server or other proxy servers.
However, if Basic Authentication or a comparable mechanism must be used on the proxy server, add the following URLs to the Proxy Authentication exclusion list:. In the Command Prompt window, type:. This script will install and activate the ESU product key. As a result, take care to ensure the confidentiality of your key by limiting its exposure.
You could also consider modifying this script to support encryption or obfuscation of the ESU key; however, that is out of scope for this post. Before you try to install and activate the Windows 7 ESU key, you should first ensure that all of the prerequisites are installed as outlined in Obtaining Extended Security Updates for eligible Windows devices.
The ESU key for Windows 7 will not install properly if the prerequisites are missing. Note: If the Software Licensing Service reports error 0xCF when installing the ESU key, this indicates that either the prerequisites have not been installed, or the updates are being applied to the wrong operating system.
The best way to resolve this is to ensure that you are applying the ESU key to Windows 7 Pro, Enterprise, or Ultimate and reinstall each of the prerequisites individually. Only Windows 7 devices will run the GPO, but all will be targeted.
Alternatively, you could create a dynamic security group in Active Directory for all Windows 7 devices and set the permission on the GPO to only that group to limit the number of devices that run the script specified in the GPO.
It may take up to 45 minutes for the new policy to synchronize to all domain controllers in your site longer for remote domain controllers, depending on the synchronization schedule. Once completed, reboot your Windows 7 devices, which will force a Group Policy update and allow the Startup scripts to run. The script will create a log file that can be examined for additional verification.
By default, the log file will be named Activate-ProductOnline. Below are some steps you can take to troubleshoot, and hopefully resolve, common issues.
While logged onto a system having an issue, attempt to install each applicable hotfix. If the hotfix installer quits with a message that the hotfix is not applicable, then the hotfix is either incorrect for the operating system, or it has already been installed.
If the hotfix installs, it was not installed previously. Note: Hotfixes are replaced over time. To determine the latest hotfixes at the time of your install, we recommend that you look up the individual hotfixes in the Microsoft Update Catalog and review the Package Details. This blog post outlines one way to deploy and activate Extended Security Updates for Windows 7. You can also use a management server, such as System Center Configuration Manager.
For information on deploying scripts with Configuration Manager, see Create and run PowerShell scripts from the Configuration Manager console. These product keys are free of cost for students and needy persons. It was released about ten years ago. There were added new features including its interface and further few updates. Microsoft has added some. These are universal product keys that will work for SotS the versions.
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