0xc004f074 – Office activation error 2010/2013/2016

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0xc004f074
When starting the MS Office product, will ask you to register the product and, al activar MS Office 2010/2013/2016 O 2019, you may receive the following error message:

Error 0xC004F074: The Software Licensing Service reported that the computer could not be activated. Contact with any Key Management Service could not be determined (KMS). Consulte el Event logging de la aplicación para obtener información adicional.

In this post, I will explain why this activation error appears and how you can easily fix it.

How to fix MS Office activation error 0xC004F074

There are several reasons that can cause such Office activation error. To clear this problem, you must carefully follow repair techniques. If you don't have a lot of time to do it manually, you can choose by the method 1 to fix this problem automatically.

Method 1: fix using advanced system repair tool

Error 0xC004F074 mainly when the source file is corrupted, files are missing DLL and other system files, Invalid or corrupted registry entries, system software, outdated drivers and operating system, etc. chance to get the same error. Advanced System Repair Tool is an all-in-one repair tool for Windows PC that takes care of all PC problems and fixes them with one button.

Method 2: fix date and time issues

Fundamentally this activation error 0xC004F074 it happens when you The date and time of the PC are not correct. Go to the next setting and sync date and time with current time zone.

Paso 1: Ir Control Panel> Reloj y región. Please select Determine the date and time below Date and Time option.

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Paso 2: Ir Internet time Tab y click Change settings … button.

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Paso 3: Click the Update Now button to sync the date and time automatically.

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Method 3: restablecer TCP / IP and flush DNS

TCP reset / IP Y limpiando DNS can fix this problem permanently. Here is the guide to reset tcp / ip and flush dns.

Paso 1: Open Command prompt as administrator

CMD command

Paso 2: Clear DNS using the following command.

ipconfig /flushdns

Paso 3: Run the following command to restablecer TCP / IP

netsh int ip reset

Paso 4: Restart your PC.

Paso 5: Open Run dialog pressing Tecla de Windows + Rand write slui 3 command and click OK.

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Paso 6: It will open Windows activation box. Enter your product key here and click next to register the window.

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Method 4: disable and re-enable DNS host

If the above method does not work well, can disable DNS and then re-enable usando el Editor del Registro. Make sure to back up the registry before proceeding to the next method.

Paso 1: press Tecla de Windows + R to open the Run command. Kind regedit and click OK to open the registry editor.

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Paso 2: Go to the next location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionSoftwareProtectionPlatform

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Paso 3: The right button of the mouse on Edit > New > Valor DWORD (32 bits) and create a new post. Rename it to DisableDnsPublishing.

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Paso 4: The right button of the mouse in this value and select Modify. Here changes your value 0 a 1 and click OK. Going to disable DNS publishing.

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Paso 5: Restart your computer. After restarting you must change its value 1 a 0 with the purpose of enable DNS.

Resume

In this post, I have tried to tell you the most possible ways to fix MS Office activation error 0xc004f074 in Windows 7/8/10. This method works in almost all versions of MS Office like Office 2010/2013/2016/2019 y Office 365.

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