Thought I would pass this along in case it saves anyone a headache down the road:
Was building an image for deploying W2K8 using OSD with SMS 2003. Pulled down the image on a test machine and couldn't open control panel. Everything else seemed to be fine. Scanned it for viruses, nothing. Finally found that we had set the "Software Licensing" service to disabled. Our thought was that it servers the same purpose as the "license Logging" service in previous versions of Windows, which we normally disable. I have setup a KMS infrastructure and thought I had a better understanding of this service. Obviously that isn't the case. I'm not exactly sure why this happened, but I'll deal with the root cause later. Just wanted to pass on that if you decide to disable this service, you may run into issues. Thanks, Chris Bodnar, MCSE Sr. Systems Engineer Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Email: [email protected] Phone: 610-807-6459 Fax: 610-807-6003 ----------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
