No respect insult taken, I just got on the project today, so I just get the fun cleanup part :)
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Erik Goldoff <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't heard of a *proper* way to turn a trial or beta into production > without the inplace or forklift upgrade ... With all due respect, I would > never put a trial version into critical production based on the license > timeout issue > > Erik Goldoff > > *IT Consultant* > > *Systems, Networks, & Security * > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Keith Turgeon [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Monday, June 08, 2009 3:05 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Windows 2008 Trial License to Volume License > > Hello, > > > I am looking at an issue, and would like a little extra clarification. We > have a couple of servers that have been installed using the Windows 2008 > trial copy that is available for download from Microsoft. This enabled > the company to get the servers up and running as they would like. Now they > have gone ahead and purchase volume licenses (eOpen), and would like to > apply these licenses to these servers. When we try to add the license key > to the servers, it ends up failing as an invalid key. After speaking with > the rep from CDW, they stated, that since it was a trial media and not > volume media, we will need to do a in place "upgrade" to get the licenses in > place and activated. Now these servers are the production BES and > Transport exchange servers, so I'm a little leery about doing this > "upgrade". > > Anyone know of a better way to get the license key updated, or what are the > thoughts on doing this in place upgrade? Any thoughts are much > appreciated. > > Thanks, > Keith > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
