You should be OK, as long as your purchase records and paper license count match up against your usage in the event of an audit.
I'll assume that you purchase your MS products from a reseller who participates in one of the Volume programs - Select, OLP, Enterprise, etc. - and that you got one Outlook 2003 CD and all of your CALs as paper licenses. In the case of volume media, the activation is disabled. When MS announced their plans for product activation years ago, corporate customers (rightly) complained that they didn't want to have to activate 100s of copies of Office. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Helfer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 11:33 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: FW: Exchange 2003 / Outlook 2003 Prodcut Activiation > > > > > I've just bought Exchange 2003 and CALs for the office. We > are still > running Exchage 5.5 SP4 [1], and we have eagerly started > installing OL2003 > to use all the cool new features. > > My question is about product activation for Outlook 2003. > We aren't asked > to activate this product when installed, and when I clcik > "Help.. Activate > Product.." I get a prodcut is already activated. This > confuses me, and > gives me a nagging concern. > > Is this product ever going to expire or require activation? > I'd really > like to know before it happens to some laptop user 2500 miles > away on a > weekend business trip. > > This also brings up the question of if product activation > is so important, > why doesn't this product include it? But maybe it's better > not to think too > deeply about MS's motives. > > > Jim Helfer > WTW Architects > Pittsburgh PA > > > > [1] Which by the way I beleive wouldn't be running half as > great as it is > without the skills I have gleaned from this mailing list and > it's members. > Thanks guys. If you're all unprofessional unethical MS-owned > vendor whores, > then I think we need more unprofessional, unethical, MS-woned > vendor whores > ! Thanks Guys! > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t ext_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
