IANAL. I think you have to start over. Microsoft.com/licensing for the official take.
Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 10:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Stupid licensing question - Win7 On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 19:03, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >> Our company has ordered a bunch of OEM/System Builder license Win7 >> packages - they didn't use the open license agreements we have with >> our two normal vendors. > > Since this seems to need clarification: > > You have a bunch of existing PCs running an older version of Windows. > Someone ordered a big pile of Win7 OEM licenses. That was wrong; they > should have ordered volume licenses. You'd like to convert the OEM > licenses into something that will give you license compliance for > those PCs. > > Do I have that right? > > -- Ben Correct for the most part - we did order new PCs for the engineers, and they came with no OS, but these machines are for internal use only. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
