Installing Windows XP Professional WITHOUT a key

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Hi everyone.

We have been instructed to find a way for Windows XP Pro to be deployed
to our clients. The caveat is that the technicians that are doing the
installs cannot have ANY access to the key.

None, zip, zilch.

We have a Volume License, so WPA is not an issue.

Client hardware is scattered across the board from barely XP compliant
to brand new. Clients will all be running either Windows 98 or Windows
2000.

Does anyone have any ideas on how we can go about this? Perhaps there
is some software that will package XP with the key in such a way that
the key cannot be used again?
 
Create images for the machines using Ghost and then Sysprep the images. If
you have a sysprep.inf file on the hard disk all sysprep files will be
deleted the first time the system comes up and it won't ask the user for the
key since it will be read from the .inf file.
 
How to use the Sysprep tool to automate successful deploymen­t of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302577

How to Use Sysprep with Windows Product Activation
or Volume License Media to Deploy Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299840

Windows XP Service Pack 2 Deployment Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...91-AC56-4665-949B-BEDA3080E0F6&displaylang=en

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

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| Hi everyone.
|
| We have been instructed to find a way for Windows XP Pro to be deployed
| to our clients. The caveat is that the technicians that are doing the
| installs cannot have ANY access to the key.
|
| None, zip, zilch.
|
| We have a Volume License, so WPA is not an issue.
|
| Client hardware is scattered across the board from barely XP compliant
| to brand new. Clients will all be running either Windows 98 or Windows
| 2000.
|
| Does anyone have any ideas on how we can go about this? Perhaps there
| is some software that will package XP with the key in such a way that
| the key cannot be used again?
 
Hello,
You can encrypt the Volume Product Keys in unattended files( this includes
like sysprep.inf).
328356 Windows XP Service Pack 1 Volume License Product Key Encryption
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=328356

Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
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I just wanted to thank everyone for their responses. The resources
provided us with the information we needed. We will be using the
encypted Volume Product key to do the installs.

Thanks again!
 
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