Re: Roll XP Retail licences to Volume license?

From: David Levine (d_levine@conknet.com)
Date: 02/15/03 

From: "David Levine" <d_levine@conknet.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:18:35 -0500

"Smallness" is your problem here. Microsoft has a licensing option for
higher ed. called Campus Agreement, which is great for Windows and Office
deployment. I agree with the other posts that you're lucky to have received
the software and maybe ought to consider the inconvenience as part of your
cost. Could you possibly configure one and clone your systems?
"adb" <aaron@dontspam.solv.org> wrote in message
news:sae3a.102892$iG3.13520@sccrnsc02...
> To all those who've fought this beast (and I know you're out there!)
Help!!
>
> I'm preparing to migrate a small (30 node) non profit to Windows XP and
> Office XP. We have receieved a donation of 30 WindowsXP Pro and Office XP
> Pro licences to do this. My sticking point is...they're all retail!
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> I don't really want to try to keep 60 different activation keys (for
windows
> AND office!) straight. As we patch and apply service packs, it's going to
> be a nightmare to keep everything running smoothly. I would really,
really
> like to SOMEhow roll those retail licences into a pair of VL media/keys to
> make this go as smooth as possible. After getting a "not possible" from
MS
> Customer support, "nope" from CDW (a VL vendor), I finally got MS
Licensing
> (1-888-352-7140) who said "sure!, call Worldwide fulfillment!
> (1-800-248-0655) and they can help!"
>
> I called worldwide fulfillment and (no surprise - probably talked to the
> wrong person) they couldn't help. They directed me to ANOTHER volume
> licensing # "try presales # for volume licensing (1-800-426-9400) - it's
the
> main volume licensing dept within MS".
>
> Needless to say this last # gave me a flat "No, it's simply not possible."
>
> Now come on - we have 60 boxes, 60 individual pieces of media, and (on
> official "microsoft donation letterhead", nonetheless!) 60 nice, neat
> license keys. Don't get me wrong - we're very grateful...but there has
> simply GOT to be "the right person" to talk to to get this done! Had we
> actually purchased these through a VL vendor, we could have purchased as
few
> as FIVE of each, and gotten VL media and keys!
>
> I'm almost positive someone else was in this scenerio and somehow got out
of
> it. I'd appreciate a direct e-mail (remove the obvious from my return
> address) or a reply to these groups (I hope google will pick up the
thread)
>
> Many thanks!
> -Aaron
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