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<p>During our configuration of Office 2013 KMS Host License Pack on a 2012 R2 KMS server we run into the following issues.</p>
<p>Once we have entered Activation type and also the Product Key in the Configure Key Management Service options we stuck on the Configuration screen below.</p>
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<p>We have tried to add KMS Firewall exceptions for Private, Domain and Public networks, but once we clicked Commit we received the following KMS error:</p>
<p>The following error has occurred. Please resolve the error and try again.</p>
<p>Description: STATUS_SUCCESS</p>
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<p>To be able to fix this error we had to change the KMS TCP listening port from <strong>0</strong> to <strong>1688</strong>.</p>
<p>For some reason Microsoft decided to set the KMS TCP listening port to <strong>0</strong>.</p>
<p>Now, to check the status of Office product KMS activation you should enter this command in the elevated CMD window:</p>
<p><strong>cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs /dlv 2E28138A-847F-42BC-9752-61B03FFF33CD</strong></p>
<p>or just navigate to C:\Windows\System32 and enter:</p>
<p><strong>slmgr.vbs /dlv 2E28138A-847F-42BC-9752-61B03FFF33CD</strong></p>
<p>Please note that you need at least <strong>5 unique KMS activation requests</strong> to be able to activate your Office product using KMS server host.</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Activation Thresholds for Windows</b> – Your organization must have at least five (5) computers to activate servers running Windows Server, and at least twenty-five (25) computers to activate client systems running Windows.</li>
<li><b>Activation Thresholds for Office</b> – Your organization must have at least five (5) computers to activate Office products using KMS.</li>
</ul>
<p>Comments are welcome.</p>