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Hi. At work we currently have OEM licenses for Windows, and also have a few Upgrade Volume Licenses. Is it possible to use the Volume Licenses on the machines which have the OEMs, as there is no real difference between them, and we still do have the licenses...? Thanks in advance to anyone who lets me know. |
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Yes--that is the point of volume licenses. Most people wrongly assume that a VL copy can legally be installed on a new machine that has no license, but that is NOT the case. The VL copy can be installed clean, but the machine MUST have a licensed copy of windows to qualify for the VL upgrade license. -- Larry Samuels Associate Expert MS-MVP (2001-2005) Unofficial faq for windows Server 2003 at http://pelos.us/SERVER.htm Expert Zone- www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone <cumu2003@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1150196647.931317.211460@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com... > Hi. > > At work we currently have OEM licenses for Windows, and also have a few > Upgrade Volume Licenses. > > Is it possible to use the Volume Licenses on the machines which have > the OEMs, as there is no real difference between them, and we still do > have the licenses...? > > Thanks in advance to anyone who lets me know. > |
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but what I meant is, if I had say 50 machines, that all had oem licenses, and I have vlk license for 10 machines, could I use the vlk on all 60 machines? Or does that contradict the vlk and oem licensing? Sorry if you meant that it would be ok in this way, I just wanted to clear things up. Cheers Larry Samuels wrote: > Yes--that is the point of volume licenses. > > Most people wrongly assume that a VL copy can legally be installed on a new > machine that has no license, but that is NOT the case. The VL copy can be > installed clean, but the machine MUST have a licensed copy of windows to > qualify for the VL upgrade license. > > -- > Larry Samuels Associate Expert > MS-MVP (2001-2005) > Unofficial faq for windows Server 2003 at > http://pelos.us/SERVER.htm > expert Zone- www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone |
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No--you can only use the VL copy on the number of machines you have VL licenses for. -- Larry Samuels Associate Expert MS-MVP (2001-2005) Unofficial faq for windows Server 2003 at http://pelos.us/SERVER.htm Expert Zone- www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone <cumu2003@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1150210273.706893.205870@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com... > but what I meant is, if I had say 50 machines, that all had oem > licenses, and I have vlk license for 10 machines, could I use the vlk > on all 60 machines? Or does that contradict the vlk and oem licensing? > > Sorry if you meant that it would be ok in this way, I just wanted to > clear things up. > > Cheers > > Larry Samuels wrote: >> Yes--that is the point of volume licenses. >> >> Most people wrongly assume that a VL copy can legally be installed on a >> new >> machine that has no license, but that is NOT the case. The VL copy can be >> installed clean, but the machine MUST have a licensed copy of windows to >> qualify for the VL upgrade license. >> >> -- >> Larry Samuels Associate Expert >> MS-MVP (2001-2005) >> Unofficial faq for windows Server 2003 at >> http://pelos.us/SERVER.htm >> expert Zone- www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone > |
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