I was asked to create a deployment for Server 2008 R2 today. I figured it would be easy as hell, however that wasn't the case. The task sequence kept throwing an error on the "Setup Windows and ConfigMgr task. Ends up it was due to the product key. After messing around with the TS over and over again, I found that if I removed the product key the TS would finish successfully. I ended up finding out that the copy of Server 2008 R2 that I got off my companies licensing site doesn't allow for a MAK key to be entered during setup. After some more searching online however I found a way to input the MAK key another way so that when the OS went to automatically activate itself it wouldn't throw an error.
What you need to do is add a Run Command Line task to your TS that comes after the OS is already installed. Put in the command line "SLMGR.VBS -ipk XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX" and then tell it to start in %system root%\system32.
By doing that you're specifying a product key to be used during automatic activation.
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