oem license and cloning issue

[Newbie]

to whom it may concern,

I have 20 oem identical windows xp pc in the department and would like to
deploy a standard image on them. Can I just configure 1 of the pc and clone
the image to the remaining pc with its own oem license key, is the oem
license still valid under this case?

thanks a lot.

 

[Peter Foldes]

I believe it is not. Maybe others will have different answers or know this as a fact

 

[Klaus Jorgensen]

Newbie used his keyboard to write :

I have 20 oem identical windows xp pc in the department and would like to
deploy a standard image on them. Can I just configure 1 of the pc and clone
the image to the remaining pc with its own oem license key, is the oem
license still valid under this case?

OEM installations from major manufacturers like HP, Dell, Lenovo etc.
are preactivated using a single product activation key from the CD (and
not the key from the COA). In that case deploying an image wouldn't be
any different from installing each of them using the CD.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457078.aspx

 

[smlunatick]

to whom it may concern,

I have 20 oem identical windows xp pc in the department and would like to
deploy a standard image on them. Can I just configure 1 of the pc and clone
the image to the remaining pc with its own oem license key, is the oem
license still valid under this case?

thanks a lot.

If you have 20 PCs in one department, this would be the 'classic" case
for getting a Volume License version.

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

to whom it may concern,

I have 20 oem identical windows xp pc in the department and would like
to
deploy a standard image on them. Can I just configure 1 of the pc and
clone
the image to the remaining pc with its own oem license key, is the oem
license still valid under this case?

That sort of thing is done all the time - create an image,
sysprep/reseal it, and deploy it to multiple targets. You might not
even need to re-activate using the license keys on the individual PCs if
they are Dell or similar OEM PCs, see
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457078(TechNet.10).aspx for
how preserve the OEM pre-activation during a sysprep for these types of
systems.