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From: Alex Ackley on 4 Oct 2006 10:53
Would be nice to get an answer to this as I'm getting the same error.

This "new and improved" licensing is causing no end of headaches. I had a
server hardware die and can't get the system working because of this same
issue.

Veritas/Symantec say it's a Microsoft issue. Which is quite troubling.

I'm not a threatening type guy but if sys admins cannot restore servers
fairly easily and quickly using common backup/restore methodologies then they
are going to move to something else.

"accessit" wrote:

> I get the following message on a Windows 2003 Server, standard, OEM.
>
> A Windows Product Activation error dialog box. "A problem is preventing
> Windows from accurately checking license for this computer". Error Code
> 0x80004005.
>
> This occurs after doing a full backup of C drive, changing the RAID5 drives
> to a larger size and using the Backup Exec IDR disk to boot from and restore
> our C drive. (This CD was created with the Intelligent Disaster Recovery
> wizard from Symantec/Veritas Backup Exec 10d, with IDR option).
>
>
> Apparently something is either missing or corrupted. Or it relates directly
> to 'restoring a server to another server' where Microsoft has associated the
> machines hardware to the license information.
>
> I cannot get past the Login screen. The proper password is rejected and a
> blank password gets us to the Activation error above.
>
> I have a full version, licensed and activated Windows 2003 server edition.
> How can I get this operational?
>
>
>
>
>
From: Mark Austin Mark on 10 Oct 2006 10:39
I would also like to see a response to this issue. I have a W2K3 server that
has started doing this just the other day. In my case there was no system
restore involved. My error message is almost identical:

A Windows Product Activation error dialog box. "A problem is preventing
Windows from accurately checking license for this computer". Error Code
0x800703e6.

My installation is from a volume licence agreement.

The only thing I see similar to the same post as a trigger is that this box
runs a full NT backup each night.

There are several other postings with this same issue, but I have not seen a
reply from an MVP or any offered solutions from the community as yet.

Here's another example:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?&query=windows+product+activation&lang=en&cr=US&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.windows.server.general&p=1&tid=33ba2562-910d-40bf-9627-675c2c30b15a&mid=33ba2562-910d-40bf-9627-675c2c30b15a

Thanks in advance for any help.

"Alex Ackley" wrote:

> Would be nice to get an answer to this as I'm getting the same error.
>
> This "new and improved" licensing is causing no end of headaches. I had a
> server hardware die and can't get the system working because of this same
> issue.
>
> Veritas/Symantec say it's a Microsoft issue. Which is quite troubling.
>
> I'm not a threatening type guy but if sys admins cannot restore servers
> fairly easily and quickly using common backup/restore methodologies then they
> are going to move to something else.
>
> "accessit" wrote:
>
> > I get the following message on a Windows 2003 Server, standard, OEM.
> >
> > A Windows Product Activation error dialog box. "A problem is preventing
> > Windows from accurately checking license for this computer". Error Code
> > 0x80004005.
> >
> > This occurs after doing a full backup of C drive, changing the RAID5 drives
> > to a larger size and using the Backup Exec IDR disk to boot from and restore
> > our C drive. (This CD was created with the Intelligent Disaster Recovery
> > wizard from Symantec/Veritas Backup Exec 10d, with IDR option).
> >
> >
> > Apparently something is either missing or corrupted. Or it relates directly
> > to 'restoring a server to another server' where Microsoft has associated the
> > machines hardware to the license information.
> >
> > I cannot get past the Login screen. The proper password is rejected and a
> > blank password gets us to the Activation error above.
> >
> > I have a full version, licensed and activated Windows 2003 server edition.
> > How can I get this operational?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
From: Mark Austin on 10 Oct 2006 10:55
This article reflects exactly what we are seeing, but we didn't have an in
place upgrade to trigger it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555488/en-us

"Mark Austin" wrote:

> I would also like to see a response to this issue. I have a W2K3 server that
> has started doing this just the other day. In my case there was no system
> restore involved. My error message is almost identical:
>
> A Windows Product Activation error dialog box. "A problem is preventing
> Windows from accurately checking license for this computer". Error Code
> 0x800703e6.
>
> My installation is from a volume licence agreement.
>
> The only thing I see similar to the same post as a trigger is that this box
> runs a full NT backup each night.
>
> There are several other postings with this same issue, but I have not seen a
> reply from an MVP or any offered solutions from the community as yet.
>
> Here's another example:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?&query=windows+product+activation&lang=en&cr=US&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.windows.server.general&p=1&tid=33ba2562-910d-40bf-9627-675c2c30b15a&mid=33ba2562-910d-40bf-9627-675c2c30b15a
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>> > >
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