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May 17, 2005 at 08:02 AM
starscream

Windows XP Volume and OEM Licensing

by starscream . Updated 18 years, 3 months ago

Hi,

hopefully someone can help me with this.

I am the IT Technician in 5 schools and I am going to implement server/client networks using he current peer 2 peer networked computers. I have 30 XP Pro computers all with OEM license as they were bought with XP pro on less than a year ago. However I would like to be able to image these computers with cloning software such as symantec ghost. I know this is all fine and dandy with Volume Licensed computers but what step can I do to allow cloning with OEM computers where each computer has its own activation key? Can I activate one copy of windows and then clone it activated to all other computers, or can I get a VLM copy of XP Pro and use the key from that on all computers? All the computers have their own Certificate of authenticity so would it be ok to use one key through out and use the activation reset crack on them all? Last thing I want to do is to enter the CD Key manually on all computers and future computers.

Thanks

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