Weird procedure to activate Windows 2008 from MSDN subscription
I kept getting a "Activation Error: Code 0x8007232b DNS Name does not exist" error whenever I tried to activate Windows 2008 Standard (which has been running great on my X61 laptop so far as the host OS!).
Weird procedure you have to follow to activate:
Activate Windows Server 2008 RTM (MSDN Subscriber Downloads version)