Volume upgrade licence not genuine when on public internet???

[Pat Coghlan]

I have a volume upgrade licence, which I now understand will only allow
updates from the enterprise server(s).

If I remove a workstation from the enterprise network and connect it to
the public internet, I start getting the "this copy of Windows is not
genuine".

Give me a break! Okay, maybe I can't get updates from the public
network, but it shouldn't complain simply because it can't see the
mother ship.

Is this a bug?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Please follow this WGA troubleshooting procedure:

1. Download and install the WGA Diagnostic Tool:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=52012

2. After running the WGA Diagnostic Tool, click
on the "Validation" tab and then click on "Copy to Clipboard".

3. Next, visit the following website and create a post in the
"WGA Validation Problems" forum and paste the
results of the WGA Diagnostic Data in your post.
http://forums.microsoft.com/Genuine/default.aspx?SiteID=25

4. A WGA troubleshooting specialist will analyze the data and
recommend an appropriate solution.

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

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| I have a volume upgrade licence, which I now understand will only allow
| updates from the enterprise server(s).
|
| If I remove a workstation from the enterprise network and connect it to
| the public internet, I start getting the "this copy of Windows is not
| genuine".
|
| Give me a break! Okay, maybe I can't get updates from the public
| network, but it shouldn't complain simply because it can't see the
| mother ship.
|
| Is this a bug?
|
| --
|
| -Pat

 

[Guest]

You can follow Carey's advice and spend, Lord knows how many hours dealing
with microsoft support, OR you can go to this website and follow the
directions and fix this within 10 minutes...
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/...s-genuine-advantage-notifications-nag-screen/

Joe

Kemco IT Professional

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

That is a temporary, bogus workaround and you should refrain
from making such a silly suggestion that is detrimental to
the user's desire to have a genuine Windows XP system.

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

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:

| You can follow Carey's advice and spend, Lord knows how many hours dealing
| with microsoft support, OR you can go to this website and follow the
| directions and fix this within 10 minutes...
| http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/...ine-advantage-bogus-notifications-nag-screen/
|
| Joe
|
| Kemco IT Professional

 

[kurttrail]

That is a temporary, bogus workaround and you should refrain
from making such a silly suggestion that is detrimental to
the user's desire to have a genuine Windows XP system.

Which of the dozen or so workarounds are bogus, and how do you know that
they are bogus? Have you tried them all, or are you just lying again,
Carey?

--
Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

 

[kurttrail]

I have a volume upgrade licence, which I now understand will only
allow updates from the enterprise server(s).

If I remove a workstation from the enterprise network and connect it
to the public internet, I start getting the "this copy of Windows is
not genuine".

Give me a break! Okay, maybe I can't get updates from the public
network, but it shouldn't complain simply because it can't see the
mother ship.

Is this a bug?

Design.

I have a question for you. Is it your desire to get you OS updated, or
is your desire that which Carey states "to have a genuine Windows XP
system?"

I can get you any security update you want, in exchange for a truthful
answer to my question.

--
Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

 

[Guest]

Only a genuine fool would take any of the bogus advice
you dish out seriously....

 

[kurttrail]

Only a genuine fool would take any of the bogus advice
you dish out seriously....

LOL! I asked you two questions, which you didn't have the balls to
answer.

No surprise at all, Carey.

--
Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

 

[Pat Coghlan]

Design.

They should rethink this design.

When I purchased my (close to 50) volume upgrade licence, nobody in the
supply chain mentioned that the workstations would have to "live" on the
enterprise network to get updates.

I don't mind the part about getting updates from a central server, but I
do have a problem with being told that I don't have a genuine copy of
Windows on my off-enterprise machines, some of which are part of domains
which are isolated from the enterprise network.

I have a question for you. Is it your desire to get you OS updated, or
is your desire that which Carey states "to have a genuine Windows XP
system?"

I want to NOT see the idiotic balloon telling me that my copy of WinXP -
that I paid for - is not genuine.

I also want to be able to update my off-enterprise machines.

 

[Guest]

Yes Carey this is not the correct way to go about things but at the same time
who wants to be nagged and bugged whenever they take a computer home to work
on it and it doesn't have connection to the main server? Microsoft should
have fixed that issue before they released the patch but thats what Microsoft
does they release patches before they fully test them. That is why MS06-015
screwed up the shell because MS doesn't fully test before releasing patches.
In this case the WGA tool is not a patch or a fix for ANYTHING and you don't
NEED it at the moment which is why I gave the advice to remove the update
using one of the 12 ways on that weblink. Take my advice Pat remove this
update and wait for MS to fix it then reinstall it. I am in no way saying to
not get your updates I am just trying to save you time and HAIR!(dealing with
MS support many hairs tend to be yanked from head!) Good Luck Pat.

Joe

Kemco IT Professional

 

[Pat Coghlan]

By "fix it" I presume you mean they (MS) won't have the balloon
displayed on volume update licence machines when they are not connected
to the enterprise network.

Of course, it's going to be hard to trust *any* updates from MS now.

I tried System Restore to the date just before all this started (I was
trying out IE 7 beta) and everything seems to have returned to normal.

 

[kurttrail]

By "fix it" I presume you mean they (MS) won't have the balloon
displayed on volume update licence machines when they are not
connected to the enterprise network.

Of course, it's going to be hard to trust *any* updates from MS now.

I tried System Restore to the date just before all this started (I was
trying out IE 7 beta) and everything seems to have returned to normal.

Make sure you turn off Auto Update if you don't MS to reinstall their
malware on your system.

--
Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

 

[kurttrail]

They should rethink this design.

When I purchased my (close to 50) volume upgrade licence, nobody in
the supply chain mentioned that the workstations would have to "live"
on the enterprise network to get updates.

I don't mind the part about getting updates from a central server,
but I do have a problem with being told that I don't have a genuine
copy of Windows on my off-enterprise machines, some of which are part
of domains which are isolated from the enterprise network.


I want to NOT see the idiotic balloon telling me that my copy of
WinXP - that I paid for - is not genuine.

I also want to be able to update my off-enterprise machines.

Then you should bypass all the Update middlware (Microsoft, Windows, and
Automatic Update), that only adds more things that can go wrong during
the patching process. I call this Common Sense Computing.

http://comsense.microscum.com

All the critical updates can be downloaded directly from MS's servers
without needing the WGA malware.

http://microscum.kurttrail.com/postsp2

--
Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."