I download Windows Server 2022 ISO from my MSDN subscription. And freshly installed the Standard edition on a bare-metal machine with AMD R7-5800U
Then claimed a product key right besides the download list
When I try to activate, it failed with 0xC002001B
Then I tried again with command line
dism /online /set-edition:ServerStandard /productkey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX /AcceptEula
Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.20348.1
Image Version: 10.0.20348.202
Starting to update components...
Starting to install product key...
Finished installing product key.
Starting to apply edition-specific settings...
Error: 1168
From the log, it seems the product key was valid but failed with something else.
2021-09-08 21:46:37, Info DISM DISM Transmog Provider: PID=9768 TID=5996 No pending CBS operations. - CTransmogManager::TransmogrifyWorker
2021-09-08 21:46:37, Info DISM DISM Transmog Provider: PID=9768 TID=5996 The selected OS *can* upgrade to [ServerStandard] - CTransmogManager::TransmogrifyWorker
2021-09-08 21:46:37, Info DISM DISM Transmog Provider: PID=9768 TID=5996 Updating components from [ServerStandard] [ServerStandard] to [ServerStandard] [ServerStandard]; (windir = [C:\Windows]) - CTransmogManager::UpdateComponents
2021-09-08 21:46:37, Info DISM DISM Transmog Provider: PID=9768 TID=5996 Optional Product Key [XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX] - CTransmogManager::UpdateComponents
2021-09-08 21:46:37, Info DISM DISM Transmog Provider: PID=9768 TID=5996 Installing product key [Online]... - CTransmogManager::InstallProductKey
2021-09-08 21:46:37, Info DISM DISM Transmog Provider: PID=9768 TID=5996 Determined WinDir path = [C:\Windows] - CTransmogManager::GetWinDirPath
2021-09-08 21:46:37, Info DISM DISM Transmog Provider: PID=9768 TID=5996 Successfully installed product key. - CTransmogManager::InstallProductKey
2021-09-08 21:46:37, Info DISM DISM Transmog Provider: PID=9768 TID=5996 Migrating product key values from [Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DefaultProductKey2] to [Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion] and [ControlSet001\Control\ProductOptions]... - CTransmogManager::MigrateDigitalProductKey
2021-09-08 21:46:37, Info DISM DISM Transmog Provider: PID=9768 TID=5996 Successfully migrated product key information. - CTransmogManager::MigrateDigitalProductKey
2021-09-08 21:46:37, Info DISM DISM Transmog Provider: PID=9768 TID=5996 Successfully migrated the product key. - CTransmogManager::UpdateComponents
2021-09-08 21:46:37, Info DISM DISM Transmog Provider: PID=9768 TID=5996 Successfully updated components. - CTransmogManager::UpdateComponents
2021-09-08 21:46:37, Info DISM DISM Transmog Provider: PID=9768 TID=5996 Successfully updated components from [ServerStandard] to [ServerStandard] - CTransmogManager::TransmogrifyWorker
2021-09-08 21:46:37, Info DISM DISM Transmog Provider: PID=9768 TID=5996 Applying edition settings for [ServerStandard] - CTransmogManager::ApplyEditionSettings
2021-09-08 21:46:38, Warning DISM DISM Provider Store: PID=9768 TID=5996 Failed to retrieve the Provider Instance. - CDISMProviderStore::Internal_GetProvider(hr:0x80004005)
2021-09-08 21:46:38, Info DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=9768 TID=5996 <servicing> node not found. Nothing to do. - CPackageManagerUnattendHandler::Apply
2021-09-08 21:46:38, Info CSI 00000001 Shim considered [l:125]'\??\C:\Windows\Servicing\amd64_microsoft-windows-servicingstack_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.20348.201_none_f21db6e6513c85d9\wcp.dll' : got STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND
2021-09-08 21:46:38, Info CSI 00000002 Shim considered [l:122]'\??\C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-servicingstack_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.20348.201_none_f21db6e6513c85d9\wcp.dll' : got STATUS_SUCCESS
2021-09-08 21:46:38, Info DISM DISM Smi Provider: PID=9768 TID=5996 SMI provider selected "specialize" servicing pass. - CSmiWrapper::ApplySettings
2021-09-08 21:46:38, Warning DISM DISM Smi Provider: PID=9768 TID=5996 The following problems were encountered while deserializing settings. List of issues follows: - CSmiWrapper::ApplySettings
2021-09-08 21:46:38, Warning DISM DISM Smi Provider: PID=9768 TID=5996 [Setting Override Warning] hr=0x221006 / Source=[Name: WindowsSearchEngine-SvcConfig, Language: neutral, ProcessorArchitecture: x86, PublicKeyToken: 31bf3856ad364e35, VersionScope: nonSxS] / Description=[Unable to find a component matching the given namespace.]. - CSmiWrapper::DisplayDeserializationResults
2021-09-08 21:46:38, Warning DISM DISM Smi Provider: PID=9768 TID=5996 [Setting Override Warning] hr=0x221006 / Source=[Name: Networking-MPSSVC-Svc, Language: neutral, ProcessorArchitecture: x86, PublicKeyToken: 31bf3856ad364e35, VersionScope: nonSxS] / Description=[Unable to find a component matching the given namespace.]. - CSmiWrapper::DisplayDeserializationResults
2021-09-08 21:46:38, Warning DISM DISM Smi Provider: PID=9768 TID=5996 [Setting Override Warning] hr=0x221006 / Source=[Name: Microsoft-Windows-Win32k-Settings, Language: neutral, ProcessorArchitecture: x86, PublicKeyToken: 31bf3856ad364e35, VersionScope: nonSxS] / Description=[Unable to find a component matching the given namespace.]. - CSmiWrapper::DisplayDeserializationResults
