Classmate - Windows Not Activating

[BrandonD-1528]

So, apparently our classmates are getting activation errors and claiming Windows is not genuine after reimaging. The systems are from the 2010 kit.
We're currently running tests to find out if the issue is with the network setup or an issue with the install.

Error:

0x8007232B
Description:
DNS name does not exist.

UPDATE: Ping isn't working, so there's an issue in the networking, looking into it.

UPDATED UPDATE: Tracert is getting to ntwk.msn.com and stops. Ping is timing out to www.microsoft.com. Is everyone imaging at once and crashing Microsoft's servers like they did to FIRST and CD today?

UPDATED UPDATE OF UPDATEDNESS: Google can be pinged, and I can't ping Microsoft from home either. Looks like Microsoft is having a server outage.

PING:

brandon@nickolai:~$ ping www.microsoft.com
PING lb1.www.ms.akadns.net (65.55.12.249) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 10.22.8.58 icmp_seq=17 Packet filtered
From 10.22.8.58 icmp_seq=36 Packet filtered
From 10.22.8.58 icmp_seq=37 Packet filtered
From 10.22.8.58 icmp_seq=51 Packet filtered

TRACERT:

brandon@nickolai:~$ traceroute www.microsoft.com
traceroute to www.microsoft.com (65.55.12.249), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  homeportal (192.168.1.254)  3.501 ms  3.548 ms  3.894 ms
 2  * * *
 3  75.26.93.194 (75.26.93.194)  28.783 ms  29.852 ms  30.391 ms
 4  * * *
 5  * * *
 6  151.164.99.200 (151.164.99.200)  31.221 ms bb2-g14-0.sfldmi.sbcglobal.net (151.164.92.220)  23.691 ms 151.164.99.200 (151.164.99.200)  24.329 ms
 7  151.164.99.177 (151.164.99.177)  31.469 ms  31.068 ms  31.190 ms
 8  ppp-151-164-46-34.eulstx.swbell.net (151.164.46.34)  31.731 ms  31.881 ms  30.530 ms
 9  xe-0-1-2-0.ch1-16c-1b.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.43.204)  32.027 ms  30.432 ms  31.339 ms
10  ge-1-3-0-0.co1-64c-1b.ntwk.msn.net (207.46.40.98)  91.837 ms  92.001 ms  91.962 ms
11  10.22.8.170 (10.22.8.170)  91.589 ms  91.294 ms  91.641 ms
12  10.22.8.58 (10.22.8.58)  95.838 ms  92.081 ms  91.677 ms
13  * * *
14  * * *