Windows 10: Something prevented us from communicating with our activation servers

Boy do I have a long story for you guys.


I built this PC a four or five years ago. A friend of mine set it all up for me, apparently by using a Windows 10 Education license. A while back, it expired and I didn't pay it any mind. But lately I tried to do a few things on my PC that all required me to have my account activated.


So I decided to buy a new license windows 10 home for myself, since I do not talk to the person who set up my PC a while back.


And before anyone tells me, I know you can't use Family keys on Education keys.


See, I factory reseted my PC something I was in need of doing because it was staring to go EXTREMELY slow for some reason and I couldn't understand why and now that I am trying to activate this Key it doesn't work and it keeps telling me "Something prevented us from communicating with our activation servers." with the error code 0x803f7008 alongside it.


I bought this key on September 21st 2020, so I know the key hasn't expired and hasn't been used or I don't know what. It's brand spanking new. And yet, it still doesn't want to work, no troubleshooting works, the virtual helper doesn't offer help either.


Does anyone have any idea? Because I am at a standstill right now and no answers I can find online seem to be able to reolve the issue.

:)

 

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

 

something prevented us from communicating with our activation servers

As a tip originally from @Kari iirc, I always name each activated installation in settings menus as XXXXX-act so when I look on the MS account, I know which devices are activated, as you cannot tell in the MS account.

This enables me to delete old ones not activated to keep this tidy.

 

something prevented us from communicating with our activation servers

Would appreciate your assistance!

Have a Windows 7 Home Premium computer (all legal), and got Windows 10 on it using the Media creation tool. It went flawlessly.

However, tried to change some settings and was notified there was a problem with activation, and tto run the Troubleshooter. Got: "Something prevented us from communicating with our activation servers", error code 0x87e107e3


Wouldn't the digital license come into play?
Any clues as to how to solve this issue?


Thanks for your help.

CB