If you have the retail box, there should also be a license document in the box. The license document is sufficient. It contains the SKU and the count and the Microsoft seal. The box itself is worthless.
Receipts/invoices are worthless unless they are from a certified reseller. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 11:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] SOT: Letter from MS, legitimacy ? I did some reading up, while posting and saw something disturbing, I'm hoping someone can confirm this - Is it a true that even they posses the retail box that says for example "windows 2003 TS 5-cal license" that without the invoice / receipt it is not valid? The reason I ask is because I recall that when I took over , i had asked them about the TS Cal's and it literally took days to find them, but as stated above they only had the box/package for it , they had no receipts/invoices. Jean-Paul Natola ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] SOT: Letter from MS, legitimacy ? Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:29:56 +0000 That is how they do it, fedex letter asking them to do a self audit and provide results...with a deadline. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 11:27 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] SOT: Letter from MS, legitimacy ? Hi all One of my new clients called me and said they received a letter via Fedex from MS, regarding licensing. In my 15+ years I have never had that occur before , I asked them to email me the letter so I can take a look at it. They only recently (within the last year) gone to Volume Licensing for Windows/Exchange/outlook and TS cals/licensing, all desktops are desktops are OEM licensed. They are also a small company (maybe 40 desktops ) and a handful of servers. Has anyone on here ever been contacted in this manner? Jean-Paul Natola
