Renewing MSDN Windows licenses
12 November 2008, 03:31 PM
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Renewing MSDN Windows licenses
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
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
13 November 2008, 08:43 AM
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Okay, thanks Sonic. Looks like there is a limit on these ones. Makes it fun having to translate the Simplified Chinese screens though!
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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
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
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