All my coworkers at Geniant will get a special kick out of this. The rest of us will just like it. Pretty funny stuff.

Happy Killing Gidge!

I finally made my switch last weekend to Vista Business, which we have copies of from work through our Volume license agreement. I got everything up and running and all is well, for the most part. Vista has some annoying things about it that I may write about later. All was indeed well until I went to activate Vista. I ended up getting this error:

Windows Activation Error

A problem occurred …blah, blah,blah… Error Code 0×8007232B

For possible resolution, click

More Information 

What a perfectly cryptic error message. I love these. Thinking that I would get something meaningful, I click More Information. I get:

Code:

0×8007232B

Description:

DNS name does not exist

Not too helpful either. So I start to think before I Google, which is not my normal course of action. Did I enter in the wrong key? Not likely. I didn’t think it would let me continue with the install with a bad key. To make sure, I clicked the Change Product Key link on the System Properties Window in the Windows Activation Section. I pasted in the same key that I thought I typed in during install and clicked next and after about 20 seconds, BOOM! Activated.

I don’t know if this is a Vista License Key issue, a Volume License Key issue, or an issue with the person sitting at the keyboard. But in the event it was one of the first two, I thought it would make sense to post that it is easily resolved by re-entering the key.

Happy Vista Everyone!