Vista KMS client problems.

Was getting the following error on one of the locations.

0x8007232B
DNS name does not exist.

The DNS setting was setup correctly as was the IP and Gateway. I did not have a DHCP setup at the location. The problem was in the workstation's DNS suffix. Workstation located the KMS host and activated by itself once i have added the correct "Primary DNS suffix" in the computer properties.

If you have a DHCP on the site then you don't have to walk up to each workstation to change the DNS suffix in order to activate it. Just make sure that option 15 [DNS suffix list] is added to the DHCP options and DNS servers listed correctly. Clear the DHCP table, run the following on the client;

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

and the workstation will activate by itself.

If you are using the KMS host on a different site with different domain then add the KMS location to the client manually as following:

cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs -skms Kms_FQDN

Make sure that you runing the above command in command prompt with elevated privileges.