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PID is not accepted. FBA logs an error that the PID failed and then BSOD's with a LICENSE_KEY_VIOLATION. (?) I've tried with and without the hyphens. We got the key from MS as a XP Professional Key as XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX. Is that the correct way to do it? We've purchased 8000 licenses, so are we going about this the wrong way? Would that explain the problem?
 
Pick one of 8000 stickers and enter complete number in TD as written on COA sticker.

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Slobodan

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JimClack said:
PID is not accepted. FBA logs an error that the PID failed and then BSOD's with a LICENSE_KEY_VIOLATION. (?) I've tried with
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and without the hyphens. We got the key from MS as a XP Professional Key as XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX. Is that the correct way
to do it? We've purchased 8000 licenses, so are we going about this the wrong way? Would that explain the problem?
 
We've never gotten the 8,000 stickers. We signed a contract with MS for 20,000 copies, and of those have purchased 4,000 the first year, 8,000 this year, and will get 8,000 more next year. We are about ready to roll them out, but cannot figure out how to license them. No stickers were involved because this is a mass deployment to remote embedded systems where each one cannot be individiually marked with a uinique PID. The SID provides the uniqueness here. At least as I understand it.
 
You will stick one COAL on each device.
And you will use number from one of the new stickers for all your images.

Regards,
Slobodan

JimClack said:
We've never gotten the 8,000 stickers. We signed a contract with MS for 20,000 copies, and of those have purchased 4,000 the
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first year, 8,000 this year, and will get 8,000 more next year. We are about ready to roll them out, but cannot figure out how to
license them. No stickers were involved because this is a mass deployment to remote embedded systems where each one cannot be
individiually marked with a uinique PID. The SID provides the uniqueness here. At least as I understand it.
 
Thank you for your quick replies.
My boss (who ordered the XPe licenses) never received the stickers. So I guess it's back to him - he probably should contact the represntative with whom he dealt.
 
Am I missing something here, the first message said "We got the key from MS
as a XP Professional Key as XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX. Is that the
correct way to do it?"

XP Professional, not XPe?

Seeing as XPP is more expensive than XPe, is this saying that owning a XPP
licence entitles the user to use a lower cost version instead?

Perhaps I've totally missunderstood.

Also, what, roughly should be price be, in the UK, for a XPe licence? The
prices I've been quoted from the XPe DSP's is within £5 of an XPP (OEM)
licence and massively more than I had been lead to believe it should be. ie.
~£70 rather than ~£20.

Regards
Chris.

JimClack said:
Thank you for your quick replies.
My boss (who ordered the XPe licenses) never received the stickers. So I
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guess it's back to him - he probably should contact the represntative with
whom he dealt.
 
No, that was my mistake. I'm trying to get up-to-speed with XPe and my boss was trying to help out, so he got me an XP Pro license key from the MS licensing site. That didn't work. Sorry about any misleading impression I left.
 
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