It turned out, you have to go to the directory and I moved our kms server from 2008r2 to 2012, ran the keys over and over, used vmat, nothing helped. Everything I tried to fix it, would not work. When I tried to rearm (office16 directory We are using xendesktop and had installed Office 2016 on the 'golden' image. Our windows 7 machines showed that error 0xC004F074 when trying to activate. I know my KMS is working because I can still activate 20 versions of Office. NOTICE: A KB article has been detected for activation failure: 0xC004F074

To view the activation event history run: cscript OSPP.VBS /dhistorykms Please see the Application Event Log for additional information. No Key ManĪgement Service (KMS) could be contacted. Last 5 characters of installed product key: WFG99ĮRROR DESCRIPTION: The Software Licensing Service reported that the product could not be activated. LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 16, VOLUME_KMSCLIENT channel LICENSE NAME: Office 16, Office16ProPlusVL_KMS_Client edition Installed product key detected - attempting to activate the following product: When I try and activate a copy of Office 2016 via KMS this is the error I get:

I have installed the Office 2016 KMS Host patch on our KMS Server and when I look it shows that it is licensed.