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Eddie
I am trying to clone to 20 Dell GX270 PCs using Ghost 7.5.
1) When I build the 1st one, I use the WXP Pro OEM install.
2) I suck the image to the server using Sysprep & Ghost, with our Volume
Licensing product key.
3) When loaded back to the clients this fails on the license key.
4) I return to step 2 & use an OEM product key.
5) The deployment works! BUT each machine is asking for activation. If I
activate more than 1 of these then surely activation will fail because they
all have the same OEM product key, not their individual ones & not the
volume licensing one.
7) If I were to return to step 1) & build from my volume license media the
installation of the 1st machine will fail because the VL media is only an
upgrade.
8) If I were to exclude the product key from the sysprep.inf file I could
enter each individual machine's OEM key - BUT I will have to do this every
time I re-clone a machine which I reckon is going to be a regular event.
Is there a utility out there that will allow me to substitute the VL product
key in place of the OEM license key thus auto activating the installations?
Any other ideas on how to get around this?
I have read much in this newsgroup referring to various TechNet documents
but I have yet to find anything that solves the problem rather than
acknowledging it exists.
Many thanks
Eddie Cooper
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1) When I build the 1st one, I use the WXP Pro OEM install.
2) I suck the image to the server using Sysprep & Ghost, with our Volume
Licensing product key.
3) When loaded back to the clients this fails on the license key.
4) I return to step 2 & use an OEM product key.
5) The deployment works! BUT each machine is asking for activation. If I
activate more than 1 of these then surely activation will fail because they
all have the same OEM product key, not their individual ones & not the
volume licensing one.
7) If I were to return to step 1) & build from my volume license media the
installation of the 1st machine will fail because the VL media is only an
upgrade.
8) If I were to exclude the product key from the sysprep.inf file I could
enter each individual machine's OEM key - BUT I will have to do this every
time I re-clone a machine which I reckon is going to be a regular event.
Is there a utility out there that will allow me to substitute the VL product
key in place of the OEM license key thus auto activating the installations?
Any other ideas on how to get around this?
I have read much in this newsgroup referring to various TechNet documents
but I have yet to find anything that solves the problem rather than
acknowledging it exists.
Many thanks
Eddie Cooper
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