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0x800704CF - Windows can't reach our activation servers right now. 0xC004F213 - Windows reported that no product key was found on your device. NOTE: This is NOT a hardware issue, Windows Activation Troubleshooter can resolve this issue. Activating Windows. See Activate Windows 10 for general info about activation, including how to choose your activation method. See Reactivating Windows 10 after a hardware change for more info about reactivating Windows 10 after making a significant change to your device's hardware. See Activate Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 for info about activation of earlier versions of Windows. How to Fix Network Error code 0x800704cf in Windows 10. Tl;dr, Win10 is invalid because new hardware, I go to settings - Activation - Troubleshoot - 'I changed hardware on this device recently': Then I get a 'Unable to activate Windows' pop-up saying 'We can't reactivate Windows as our servers aren't available right now.' Windows will attempt to activate your Windows 10 OS. If you upgraded to Windows 10 with Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 during the free upgrade offer, you can use the product key from these OS editions. If you specified the correct key, but activation still does not occur, wait a few hours, there may be temporary problems on the activation servers.

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Office 365 ProPlus is being renamed to Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise. For more information about this change, read this blog post.

Symptoms

When you set up your network to block Internet Explorer 6, users discover that they cannot activate Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise. When users try to activate Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, they receive the following error message:

We are unable to connect right now. Please check your network and try again later.

Cause

This issue occurs because the client computer cannot connect to *.microsoftonline-p.net.

Workaround

To work around this issue, add an explicit 'allow' rule that contains 'MSOIDCRL'in your firewall or proxy for agents.

For example, set up the rules to first allow MSOIDCRL and to then deny Internet Explorer 6.

For more info about how to configure firewall rules, see your firewall documentation.

More information

For more information about Office 365 activation issues, see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

We Can't Reach Our Activation Servers Right Now

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