9.3 Your iPad could not be activated because the activation server is temporarily unavailable.

TThanks Brendan, this worked once I finally got to a computer with the latest iTunes update. Thanks for posting! Again it works! Back in business with my ipad2. God bless!

I Have been trying all morning to do the same thing but each time I do a reset iTunes loses the connection to my iPad because I have to enter my passcode. So the only other option iTunes offers me is to redownload the update & install to iPad. 6 hour estimate then 2 hours into it all stops & I am no further along. I'm glad that others are having success but maybe those of us with passcodes can't progress because iTunes shuts down because it can't connect to the iPad because of pass code. Grrrr....

Cannot activate my ipad 2.

I have the exact same problem since thursday.. It says activator service is temporarily unavailable on my ipad 2.. and when i connect it to itunes it says Itunes unable to verify your device .. I hope they will fix it soon because my laptop is dying.. my phone's battery *****.. my ipad was the last man standing i cant loose that aswell..

THank youuuuu!!!! it workss

Good for those who have had the solution and it worked for them I followed instructions and updates did not work.After many frustrating hours I restored, losing all my apps and files in the process. What a disappointing reaction from Apple support. After chat and being promised email of my chat and solution when it was available I had no response. Thought Apple was better than that.

ME too! I spent all today following the advice given but still not activating my computer says there is an unknown error with iTunes Store & cannot connect to my iPad. I didn't want to have to restore to factory settings but it seems I have no choice. I will lose a pile of recent data! Grrrr.....

I have tried all possible measurements recommended here in Community and Apple Support pages, but they don´t help, iPad2 can´t be activated, even to restore iPad2 couldn´t been done. It´s so annoying!

Thank you, Brenden. That appears to have solved the issue I was having as well.

Further...

I would like to point out that I had tried this about 10 times in the past 2 days (looking for the recovery screen) and could not get to it. The iPad would only restart. I find this very curious, mostly because iTunes did acknowledge my iPad, and my iPad settings were still being adhered to (i.e. it could read that it was my iPad (persistant machine name) but would not let me register). I'm wondering if there is something else going on behind the scenes.

Apologies. I'm not trying to be a consipiracy theorist (because that makes no sense). I do, however, find the timing curious.

At last! After trying three times updating via iTunes with failure, then tried restore option with iTunes, once more, and it helped and now iPad2 seems to be restored, works slowly, but it works, yippee!