Re: Windows 7 Licensing Question

2011-02-16 Thread Kramer, Jack
sadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:28:23 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issues mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> Subject: RE: Windows 7 Licensing Question Possible stupid question. Couldn’t he just prep one of the machines with the OEM OS/key that came with it

RE: Windows 7 Licensing Question

2011-02-15 Thread Mike Gill
o: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 Licensing Question Check out www.microsoft.com/licensing. Long story short though, you'll probably want to use KMS. It's a small service that you'll install on a Windows Server box and you'll provide it your key and activate i

RE: Windows 7 Licensing Question

2011-02-15 Thread Mike Hoffman
System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 Licensing Question On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Kennedy, Jim wrote: > It actually does not count the number of licenses. You are pretty much > on the honor system for that. *O*. I thought I had remembered reading something to the effec

Re: Windows 7 Licensing Question

2011-02-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Kennedy, Jim wrote: > It actually does not count the number of licenses. You are pretty > much on the honor system for that. *O*. I thought I had remembered reading something to the effect that it did. No wonder I'm not getting it. Thank you for appl

RE: Windows 7 Licensing Question - semi hijack

2011-02-15 Thread John Cook
: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 Licensing Question You don't have to re-image them. You can update the key and re-activate using the Volume Activation Management Tool. Sean Rector, MCSE -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tu

RE: Windows 7 Licensing Question

2011-02-15 Thread Sean Rector
t: Re: Windows 7 Licensing Question On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: >> How does KMS interact with OEM Windows licenses and their keys, >> though? > > The OEM keys are managed separately. So... one can reimage OEM PCs from volume media, but one has to en

RE: Windows 7 Licensing Question

2011-02-15 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 10:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 Licensing Question On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: >> How does KMS interact with OEM Windows licenses and their keys, >> though? &g

RE: Windows 7 Licensing Question

2011-02-15 Thread Kennedy, Jim
ilvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 10:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 Licensing Question On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: >> How does KMS interact with OEM Windows licenses and their keys, >> though? > > The OE

Re: Windows 7 Licensing Question

2011-02-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Andrew S. Baker wrote: >> How does KMS interact with OEM Windows licenses and their keys, >> though? > > The OEM keys are managed separately. So... one can reimage OEM PCs from volume media, but one has to enter the OEM keys during the image installation proce

RE: Windows 7 Licensing Question

2011-02-15 Thread Guyer, Don
-Original Message- From: Mike Hoffman [mailto:m...@drumbrae.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 10:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 Licensing Question KMS does not work with OEM keys, you use the kms keys. The management interface can show you existing keys. Mike

RE: Windows 7 Licensing Question

2011-02-15 Thread Mike Hoffman
KMS does not work with OEM keys, you use the kms keys. The management interface can show you existing keys. Mike -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: 15 February 2011 15:05 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 Licensing Question On Tue

Re: Windows 7 Licensing Question

2011-02-15 Thread Andrew S. Baker
The OEM keys are managed separately. *ASB *(Find me online via About.Me ) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage... * On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Damien Solodow > wrote: > >> I am getting

Re: Windows 7 Licensing Question

2011-02-15 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Damien Solodow wrote: >> I am getting ready to purchase 35 new PCs with Windows 7 Professional. >> I also have 15 PCs with XP covered by Software Assurance (SA) and >> another 10 for which I will purchase Windows 7. I want to use a >> common Windows 7 image on the

RE: Windows 7 Licensing Question

2011-02-15 Thread Mike Hoffman
: 15 February 2011 14:50 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 Licensing Question Check out www.microsoft.com/licensing<http://www.microsoft.com/licensing>. Long story short though, you'll probably want to use KMS. It's a small service that you'll install on a W

RE: Windows 7 Licensing Question

2011-02-15 Thread Damien Solodow
mselves and activate. DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.447.6033 (office) 317.217.6851 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE From: Bret Hanson [mailto:bhan...@yunker.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 9:46 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 7 Licensing Question I am getting ready to purc