Windows 7 Enterprise MAK needs Reactivation?

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Published on 2010-03-18T09:45:18Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 9:51 UTC
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I have a VMware image that contains our "standard workstation" where I do a lot of testing.

I used a Windows 7 Enterprise MAK key (from MSDN) for activation because the doc said that MAK keys don't have to be reactivated when the hardware changes.

Activation was done with

slmgr.vbs /ipk LICENSE-KEY
slmgr.vbs /ato

Now after some testing where the virtual hw was changed it says it "needs to activate because the hw has changed".

What did I do wrong?

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