Volume Licensing XP is asking for activation

[jim]

Hi,
I have a customer who uses RIS to distribute XP out to his
workstations.
Now he has volume licensing for all of his Microsoft Products
including Windows XP. Even his licensing certificate/information says
he is Volume Licensed.
But when he installs XP onto a PC, XP asks to be activated. So when
he creates his RIS images, the imaged PCs are all asking for activation
as well. Now he has a 60 day grace period, but if he waits two months
or needs to redeploy an image 2 months later. That 60 days is left with
0 days on the image, forcing to activation before use of image as
normal.
This is really no problem, but it's a bit of a pain.
I thought it was only with Retail licensing that activation occurred
not Volume Licensing. I know in Sysprep you can set it to not reset
the activation. But we couldn't see any same option in risrep.
I have advised him to call Microsoft Support and see how his
licensing is setup. But in the mean time, I thought I would ask here
just in case something isn't quite right.


Thanks,
Jim Propert.

 

[Bob]

Hi Jim,

Make sure that you create the images from the Volume Licensing installation
material.
Each type of intsallation material is slightly different especially VL and
OEM

BOb

 

[Guest]

One must use the Volume License Windows XP CD to create
the sysprep image. It appears your customer did not do this.