Now, I don't know why this took these unnecessary steps...I'll have to build out another test instance of WS2022, join it to our domain and see if it auto activates like it should within 1 reboot of Install.
Now, I don't know why this took these unnecessary steps...I'll have to build out another test instance of WS2022, join it to our domain and see if it auto activates like it should within 1 reboot of Install.