There was a brief outage Friday
evening into Saturday (24-25 August 2007) of the Microsoft Windows
Genuine Advantage (WGA) server where Windows Vista validations were
failing on genuine systems. The issue has been resolved and anyone
affected needs to re-validate, followed by a shutdown/restart to ensure
the genuine features have been restored.
Windows Genuine Advantage blog post:
"We've
been receiving reports on our forum and through customer service
starting last night that Windows Vista validations have been failing on
genuine systems. It looks now as though the issue has been resolved and
validations are being processed successfully.
Customers who
received an incorrect validation response can fix their system by
revalidating on our site (http://www.microsoft.com/genuine). We
encourage anyone who received a validation failure since Friday evening
to do this now. After successfully revalidating any affected system
should be rebooted to ensure the genuine-only features are restored."