Hi

Does anyone know whether you can renew an MSDN Windows license (XP or Windows 2003 Server) after the 90 day usage period please, or do you have to re-install?

We have some VM images with these on that we need to get working again temporarily, but we're getting messages "Before you logon to the system, you must activate Windows".

Any help in this area would be much appreciated. It's been made doubly hard as the VMs I'm working with are for Simplified Chinese, Korean and Japanese versions of Windows!

Cheers
Daz

 

We dont have a limit on our MSDN licenses

and all the ones we use, we activate them

 

Okay, thanks Sonic. Looks like there is a limit on these ones. Makes it fun having to translate the Simplified Chinese screens though!

 

I bet it does

I had fun once installing a whole load of NT 4 servers in French & German

Administrator is Administrateur, took me a while before I could log on with the correct username LOL

MS actually recommend you dont activate your licenses especially if the machines are frequently rebuilt, but obviously in a production system, you would activate them

How do you get your MSDN licenses, ours are through the Gold Partnership