It has been a while I posted the Part I of the article but I have not have time for part II sooner....now here you go for Part II, which will pretty much cover how to activate your Windows Server 2008 Server Core from the shell instead of the usual few clicks away kind of GUI interface....
Microsoft has been packaging the product activation in all recent Windows releases to protect their intellectual properties and prevent illegal copies from getting the latest patches from the MS web site.
By running Windows Server 2008 Server Core doesn't mean you can get around the pruoduct activation. In Windows Server 2008 Server Core you can activate your server either locally or remotely. Either way uses the Software Licensing Management Tool - Slmgr.vbs
To activate from the local shell following the steps below :-
start /w slmgr.vbs -ipk ABCDE-12345-FGHIJ-67890-KLMNO
start /w slmgr.vbs -ato
Replace ABCDE-12345-FGHIJ-67890-KLMNO with you own prodict key and the - ato switch will then activate it for you
To activate from the remote shell or remote computer, follow the steps below :-
cscript windows\system32\slmgr.vbs SERVERNAME USERNAME PASSWORD:-ato
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