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Discus and support "Something prevented us from communicating with our activation servers. Wait a few minutes... in Windows 10 Updates and Activation to solve the problem; Hi, I'm having a crisis right now. I sent my PC to the store to get it dusted as it's been collecting a lot over the months and I couldn't do it myself... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Updates and Activation' started by Raiyan Yassin, Jun 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM.

  1. "Something prevented us from communicating with our activation servers. Wait a few minutes...


    Hi, I'm having a crisis right now. I sent my PC to the store to get it dusted as it's been collecting a lot over the months and I couldn't do it myself as I'm still recovering from my sinus surgery. The technicians managed to screw my PC over big time. They fried one of my SSDs thankfully not the windows one and all of my fans. Then they installed windows on the new replacement SSD without formatting it afterwards. They then reinstalled the drives in the wrong order Major pathing issues, causing my games to crash and such never had any issues before sending them my PC. To top it all off,

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    Raiyan Yassin, Jun 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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  2. Something prevented us from communicating with our activation servers

    Hello,
    I'm running windows server 2019 standard as host server with hyper V which has been activated fine with a product key.

    I have windows server 2019 standard that running on hyper V which I want to activate as well.

    Each of my attempts to activate the second 2019 server gets an error :
    Something is preventing us from communicating with our activation servers, Wait a few minutes and then try again, with accompanying error codes 0x87e10bc6.

    I searched and look for many solutions - but non of then solved that issue.

    Appreciate your support!

    Oren
     
    אורןאברמוב, Jun 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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  3. Bree Win User
    something prevented us from communicating with our activation servers

    Rough translation = "it's not you, it's us..."

    Microsoft seems to be having 'server troubles' at the moment. Seems the Store is down too....
    Store update
     
  4. "Something prevented us from communicating with our activation servers. Wait a few minutes...

    I installed a new CPU and Mobo, after change i cant activate windows. Getting an error "cant communicate with activation server"

    error message. "somthing prevented us from communicating with our activation servers. wait a few minutes and then try again. Error code: 0x803F700F
     
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