hi there,
i have a customer who has got themselves into a bit of a state. their server (sbs2003) is in a right mess so we are re-installing that from scratch. the clients are in a mess too so were going to flatten all of them before joining them to the shiny new sbs2003 network.
they have all the disks for sbs2003 and there is a coa license key stuck on the server. so that side of things should be ok...i hope, the problem is that the disks etc were provided with a hp server, and their new server is going to be a dell...can we transfer the license across, or are we going to have to buy a new one with the new server?
the clients, however, are a different matter. they have a mix of custom built machines, asus barebones machines, acer 'off-the-shelf' machines, and a variety of laptops from multiple vendors. some have coa stickers, they have some media sets etc but it's not clear what belongs to what etc.
i'm going in to see them next week to do an inventory of what they have and what's missing...but what's the best course of action here? can we just buy oem copies of xp for any machines that either dont have a cd or a coa?
many thanks.
i have a customer who has got themselves into a bit of a state. their server (sbs2003) is in a right mess so we are re-installing that from scratch. the clients are in a mess too so were going to flatten all of them before joining them to the shiny new sbs2003 network.
they have all the disks for sbs2003 and there is a coa license key stuck on the server. so that side of things should be ok...i hope, the problem is that the disks etc were provided with a hp server, and their new server is going to be a dell...can we transfer the license across, or are we going to have to buy a new one with the new server?
the clients, however, are a different matter. they have a mix of custom built machines, asus barebones machines, acer 'off-the-shelf' machines, and a variety of laptops from multiple vendors. some have coa stickers, they have some media sets etc but it's not clear what belongs to what etc.
i'm going in to see them next week to do an inventory of what they have and what's missing...but what's the best course of action here? can we just buy oem copies of xp for any machines that either dont have a cd or a coa?
many thanks.