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Re: XP Products hardware detection and images (Updated)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan McIndoe Hunt)
Thu Feb 7 11:04:13 2002
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Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 10:59:08 -0500
To: Michael Maier <maier@mit.edu>, winpartners@mit.edu
From: Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@MIT.EDU>
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Hi Michael,
You should take a look at the volume licensing options for these
products. I have not read the details recently, but I believe that the
solution is to buy the volume license media through the MS Select Agreement
and the appropriate number of licenses. You would then install the XP
product on the machine to be imaged, but not register it until after the
imaging so that at the time of registration, the hardware matches the
machine that it is on. With the volume licensed versions of the software,
it may not be necessary to register the products at all.
With the single copy shrink wrapped versions, you will need to register
each machine and after two registrations you will need to contact Microsoft
to register any more.
More information on the activation process is available at:
http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/basics/activation/mpafaq.asp
Jon
At 12:40 PM 2/4/2002 -0500, Michael Maier wrote:
> I have gotten one reply already and I guess I was not clear in my
> statement, so below I have tried to clarify it a little more.
>
> Thanks for the input, but maybe I worded my question wrong. I am
> not looking for software that will allow me to image XP.
>
> Has anyone made images with Office XP (or any XP product) and
> then put it back on a system that was a little different. When you do
> then XP Products realize that the hardware is not exactly the same, and
> will not let you run the product till you insert the installer CD. This
> is supposed to be the case with all XP products to my knowledge, though
> such as Office XP, FrontPage 2002, Windows XP(which I have yet to attempt
> to image), etc.
>
> There is supposed to be something that gets around the XP
> products seeing that there is a difference in hardware and that is what I
> am looking for. I hope that clarifies it a little better.
>
> Mike
