Microsoft has invested a tremendous amount of effort and logistics to make their "product activation" workable including automated 24 x 7 IVR service for activations and 24 x 7 call center that gives the user the benefit of the doubt the first time they re-activate.
Of course, all of this is aimed at the hobbiest/consumer and var-in-the-box pirates. Corporate clients, AND ALL SERVICE PROVIDERS using volume licensing or SPLA (you do have an SPLA, right?) are spared all this hassle with volume licensed media that does not need activation at all. Learn the right things from ipswitch not the wrong things! - Make it hard on your existing customers and they will decide it is worth it to switch to a different product instead of being treated poorly -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 4:11 PM To: Declude.Virus@declude.com Subject: Re: [Declude.Virus] Upgrade issues So is this why the new versions have an actual installer? Off-topic, but I think Microsoft did the world a great disservice by introducing hardware-tied activation as an accepted practice. Sidenote, how exactly do these magical failsafes work? Can we expect 1-2 days before it nags us to re-activate, or .. ? Like many others, I'd rather not learn all of this at 3am during a maintenance window. :) Jonathan At 05:47 PM 12/21/2004, you wrote: >>Am I hearing correctly that, beginning with 2.0, licensing is tied to the >>MAC address? > >Correct. > >>If so, what about those of us who load balance the traffic to the server >>across multiple NICs? This is a must to avoid downtime due to failure of a >>NIC (it's saved our bacon a couple of times). >> >>Also, if a NIC is replaced, or we migrate to a different server, what is the >>process the get a new license key...and is that available 24/7/365? >> >>We absolutely need to be able to handle these situations immediately without >>waiting until the next business day to get a new license key. > >The built-in failsafes are designed to ensure that you won't need to wait >until the next business day to get a new license key. > > -Scott >--- >Declude JunkMail: The advanced anti-spam solution for IMail mailservers >since 2000. >Declude Virus: Ultra reliable virus detection and the leader in mailserver >vulnerability detection. >Find out what you've been missing: Ask for a free 30-day evaluation. > > >---- >This outgoing message is guaranteed to be authentic by Message Level users. >Guarantee the authenticity of your email @ http://www.messagelevel.com. >--- >[This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus >(http://www.declude.com)] > >--- >This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To >unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and >type "unsubscribe Declude.Virus". The archives can be found >at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.Virus". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.Virus mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.Virus". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
