We were then told to use the MAK to activate office on the remote desktop server, but for some reason I remember that each user would need to have Office activated when the logged into the RDS and to activate you need to be a local admin.Īs this issue more focus on Office activation, I would remove the tag of “windows-remote-desktop-services”.

We are telling them we do not want to install office on 5 other clients as they already have a version of O365 installed on them and this remote desktop server is for consultants to access our network use a copy of office if they need to. Microsoft support is telling us we need to install this office version on 5 other clients and then KMS will activate. NOTICE: A KB article has been detected for activation failure: 0xC004F038 FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT: Please contact your system administrator. The count reported by your Key Management Service (KMS) is insufficient. We are receiving the following error when Office tries to activate:ĮRROR CODE: 0xC004F038 ERROR DESCRIPTION: The Software Licensing Service reported that the product could not be activated. We are trying to activate our new installation of Office 2019 on a new 2019 RDS server using KMS.

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