Vista Enterprise

Yes, but I can get it through work near-gratis. I'm trying to decide if it's worth taking on- it looks like it is, as it's just as good as retail Vista, because I don't need the Media capabilities.
 
Are these activation servers run by the institution or Microsoft? The OS is allowed to be used at home, so I find it hard to believe that it would have to phone home to our activation server every so often. That is quite a sneaky thing though, so I wouldn't put it past MS.
 
Bossk128 said:
Are these activation servers run by the institution or Microsoft? The OS is allowed to be used at home, so I find it hard to believe that it would have to phone home to our activation server every so often. That is quite a sneaky thing though, so I wouldn't put it past MS.
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It works in a hierarchy; an enterprise can have an activation server that all Vista clients use to activate themselves. The activation server also needs to check in with an MS server every so often to keep it valid.

Burnsy
 
Bossk128 said:
Are these activation servers run by the institution or Microsoft? The OS is allowed to be used at home, so I find it hard to believe that it would have to phone home to our activation server every so often. That is quite a sneaky thing though, so I wouldn't put it past MS.
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How is it sneaky? It allows an organisation to use Vista without having their clients checking with Microsoft for activation. Using it at home wouldn't be an issue since it would check in with the activation server once a VPN connection to the corporate network is established.
 
I wouldn't ever use it to connect via VPN. It would by all accounts be mine, until I stopped working for my employer. I use XP so I obviously hav used their activation before, but AFAIK it only does it the once. Not used an OS before with regular phone homes.
 
I'm fairly sure any license agreement that covers the use of Enterprise doesn't extend the rights to employees installing it at home on their personal systems, so it's not an issue because the machines will always be able to talk to the activation server.
 
Caged said:
I'm fairly sure any license agreement that covers the use of Enterprise doesn't extend the rights to employees installing it at home on their personal systems, so it's not an issue because the machines will always be able to talk to the activation server.
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I think they can install it on their personal systems as long as it is primarily for work purposes, but I've not looked that up for a while so I may be wrong.

Burnsy
 
Burnsy2023 said:
No it wouldn't, it is licensed to your business, you just have permission to install it on your computer.

Burnsy
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Yes, you are right. It would not be mine, however as long as I follow the license and uninstall when I cease working for them, I see no reason why I can't use it any differently than an operating system of my own, for work purposes. It was a case of bad semantics when I said "It would by all accounts be mine".

I'm only thinking of installing it at home beacause the info I've read explicitly states I can install it at home on one PC for work related use. Obviously I'm going to have to read the exact EULA to see whether it needs to be in contact with either a server owned by my employers or Microsoft.

Thanks for the legal advice people, I've got enough legal OS'es in my house not to worry too much if I can't use this deployment of Vista- rest assured I'll make sure I'm operating it legally.
 
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