I have just closed a ticket for a client who was having problems activating Windows 7 on his PC. As a result of these problems, he was getting a warning message popping up claiming that his copy of windows might not be genuine. Obviously, considering we had just sold them multiple activations of Windows 7 under a volume licensing agreement, this was of some concern to them.

The bizarre part is that the license key was legitimate and the workstations were behaving perfectly, except for the fact that they couldn’t check in to Microsoft to activate. The error code they were getting was 0x8007232b, which is apparently related to several problems with activations. In this case however, all that we needed to do was re-enter the activation key and re-submit the activation request. 10 seconds later, the activation was successful! Welcome to the fun world of Microsoft licensing