In my case I moved my 2008 R2 from a 1TB platter HDD drive to a 128GB SSD one, and the tokens manager tool didn't work in my case, so I simply re-activated. I'm guessing the HDD change was enough to trip up the reactivation tool, even though it tells me the backup and restores were successful.
Holy crap 2008 R2 Hyper-V host boots fast from an SSD! Dave -----Original Message----- From: Mike Hoffman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 11:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Restore 2008 R2 including product activation If you reformat a machine you might not need more activations as the hardware will match an existing license. You could use the VAMT to backup your activation info and then re-apply it - or just use a KMS and stop worrying. Mike -----Original Message----- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 02 January 2013 19:17 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Restore 2008 R2 including product activation > Is there a native way to do this, or are backups the reason when you > look up # of activations on MS's VLSC site they list more activations > available than actual licenses? I am unsure on why, exactly, there is a larger number of activations than what we have licensed on our VLSC site, but it was my understanding that it was set higher than what you need so you could do things like re-installs, re-imaging, etc. I have had to contact MS to have our activation number increased. They asked why, and I said "Because we re-image the labs every year, and each re-image eats up an activation." They took that answer and us me more. I'm sure the artificial limit is there to prevent blatant theft of a VLSC product code. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:59:07 -0800 Subject: Restore 2008 R2 including product activation > Is there a way to do a backup/restore of 2008 r2 and not have to > Windows re-activation? I found some links that use a 3rd party tool > called Advanced Tokens Manager. Is there a native way to do this, or > are backups the reason when you look up # of activations on MS's VLSC > site they list more activations available than actual licenses? > David Lum > Sr. Systems Engineer // NWEATM > Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
