Vista Business - License Server / imaging etc..

[Eddie Walker]

Hello -
Can someone point me in the proper direction.

With XP Professional (and our volume license we had) we were able to use
that disc to image out all our computers (without having to have unique key
codes after the imagine is reloadeD).

Last year we bought our computers with vista busines licenses, but put XP
Pro on them at the time.

We would now like to deploy them using our Desktop Authority Image Center.

How would I go about doing this without getting licensing errors (I have 30+
valid licenses that they came with). Do I set up a license server? Do I need
to get them changes to enterprise / academic license or what?


Thanks,

ed

 

[Mike Brannigan]

Hello -
Can someone point me in the proper direction.

With XP Professional (and our volume license we had) we were able to use
that disc to image out all our computers (without having to have unique
key codes after the imagine is reloadeD).

Last year we bought our computers with vista busines licenses, but put XP
Pro on them at the time.

We would now like to deploy them using our Desktop Authority Image Center.

How would I go about doing this without getting licensing errors (I have
30+ valid licenses that they came with). Do I set up a license server? Do
I need to get them changes to enterprise / academic license or what?


Thanks,

ed

If your original machines came with an OEM install of Vista and you reimaged
them using your Volume XP licenses and you now want to go back to Windows
Vista, but use a single image and not have to enter unique keys for each
machine - then you need to use a Volume License build of Windows Vista and
then the appropriate Volume License keys using either a Key Management
Server (KMS) or Multi Activation Key (MAK) models.
See
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/resources/vol/ActivationFAQ/default.mspx
for full details of each of these activation methods and how you obtain the
keys under your Volume Licensing Agreement.

 

[Eddie Walker]

Thanks!

If your original machines came with an OEM install of Vista and you
reimaged them using your Volume XP licenses and you now want to go back to
Windows Vista, but use a single image and not have to enter unique keys
for each machine - then you need to use a Volume License build of Windows
Vista and then the appropriate Volume License keys using either a Key
Management Server (KMS) or Multi Activation Key (MAK) models.
See
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/resources/vol/ActivationFAQ/default.mspx
for full details of each of these activation methods and how you obtain
the keys under your Volume Licensing Agreement.