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Windows Activation Issues During Deployment

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* Operating System Version: MacOS 13
* Deploying via (VirtualBox/VMWare/AWS/Azure/ESXi): VMWare Fusion
* Vagrant Version (if applicable): 2.3.6 / 2.3.7

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### Description of the issue:

While deploying the official detectionlab Windows 10 host, and/or building locally using packer, I'm running into the following error rearming Windows
```
Software licensing service version: 10.0.18362.418
Error: 0xC004D302 On a computer running Microsoft Windows non-core edition, run `slui.exe 0x2a 0xC004D302` to display the error text.
```

When running slui with the codes, I get the following:

```
An error has occurred. You can also contact Microsoft by phone to help resolve this problem.

Description: The security processor reported that the trusted data store was rearmed.
```

A bit of a vague error message. If I try to activate using `slmgr.vbs /ato` I get the following issues:

```
Error: 0xC004C032 On a computer ru nning MIcrosoft Windows non-core edition, run `slui.exe 0x2a 0xC004C032` to display the error text
```

slui command results in

```
Description: The activation server reported that new time based activation is not available.
```

### Additional Context

I deployed this on ESXi using the same default images about a week ago and ran into no issues.

Finally, I understand the project is no longer actively maintained, but would love any feedback from clong (untagged as to not bother) and/or the community to find out if more people are experiencing this / finding ways around it. [This post](https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-is-a-fresh-enterprise-evaluation-installation/df0b8887-f89a-4cea-b565-834922f3c27a) is also indicating it's not just me/this project Cheers!

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