Latest WGA finds my enterprise VLK key invalid!

[Guest]

We have about 2000+ Windows XP machines deployed on our network using our
VLK. Starting yesterday, we've started to see a few machines after
performing automatic updates come up and say they are not running a legal
version of windows. After digging through some old paperwork, Microsoft
provided us with a new Windows XP VLK key a few years ago and was never
implemented into our XP building process. We use automatic updates back
to Microsoft (no WSUS server here).

How can I easily update the keys on all of machines? Is there a way
Microsoft can validate our old key for just our public IP range? I have the
ability to block Windows Updates on our border router, but that would only be
a temporary solution. The majority of our machines do not use domain logins
(so we can't just use a login script to modify the key).

Any ideas?

--greg

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

How to change the Volume Licensing product key
on a Windows XP SP1-based computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328874/en-us

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| We have about 2000+ Windows XP machines deployed on our network using our
| VLK. Starting yesterday, we've started to see a few machines after
| performing automatic updates come up and say they are not running a legal
| version of windows. After digging through some old paperwork, Microsoft
| provided us with a new Windows XP VLK key a few years ago and was never
| implemented into our XP building process. We use automatic updates back
| to Microsoft (no WSUS server here).
|
| How can I easily update the keys on all of machines? Is there a way
| Microsoft can validate our old key for just our public IP range? I have the
| ability to block Windows Updates on our border router, but that would only be
| a temporary solution. The majority of our machines do not use domain logins
| (so we can't just use a login script to modify the key).
|
| Any ideas?
|
| --greg