I have a quick question.. I think this is the right forum for it.
The company I work for has about 50 computers, and my boss wants me to work on upgrading them all to Windows XP and Office 2003. They currently use 2K/Office XP.
Here’s the problem: Rather than have the standard x amount of licenses that use one serial number, they have something called an Action Pack subscription. It has copies of practically every MS software, but there’s some weird thing with the licenses. For example with Office, each key can only be used twice and then I have to use another key. I don’t know if this happens with the XP CD, but I do know there are two different serial numbers.
I want to try and automate the upgrade process to XP (they want me to do clean installs, not upgrades), but I don’t know if I can with this action pack thing. I’m aware of how you set up a network distribution and create an answer file for the unattended install, but how would I go about this with multiple serials? Create multiple answer files? Has anyone worked with this Action Pack thing? Can I even DO an unattended install? I really want to try and streamline this to impress the higher ups. 🙂
Thanks in advance!
~ Wayne