HI i brought my new laptop which got windows 8.1 pre installed. I installed office 2013 professional. i am trying to activate through KMS activator. I am facing problem. Through kms activation folder installslic batch file it throws error !! and tried through command line way. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15>cscript ospp.vbs /sethst:178.16 4.206.7 Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ---Processing-------------------------- --------------------------------------- Successfully applied setting. --------------------------------------- ---Exiting----------------------------- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15>cscript ospp.vbs /act Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ---Processing-------------------------- --------------------------------------- Installed product key detected - attempting to activate the following product: SKU ID: b322da9c-a2e2-4058-9e4e-f59a6970bd69 LICENSE NAME: Office 15, OfficeProPlusVL_KMS_Client edition LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 15, VOLUME_KMSCLIENT channel Last 5 characters of installed product key: GVGXT ERROR CODE: 0xC004F074 ERROR DESCRIPTION: The Software Licensing Service reported that the product coul d not be activated. No Key Management Service (KMS) could be contacted. Please s ee the Application Event Log for additional information. To view the activation event history run: cscript ospp.vbs /dhistorykms NOTICE: A KB article has been detected for activation failure: 0xC004F074 FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT : --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- ---Exiting----------------------------- i tried other server C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15>cscript ospp.vbs /sethst2013v 6.no-ip.biz got the same error please hep me to activate!!!!