How do I tell the MS licence type from the key ?

[Hodders]

A friend of my dads has a SBS server. It badly needs a reinstall (don't ask .

The problem is the supplier of his system has gone bust and he doesn't have the install media.

He does have an invoice showing that he has paid for the SBS 2k3 R2 licence and he has the licence key itself (got using JellyBean).

But before he can reinstall he needs some install media.

But if he installs using the wrong media (OEM vs retail vs corporate (ie Dell)) the process will fail.

So can you tell what licence 'type' a MS OS licence code belongs to - is there a tool of checker that will tell ?

Cheers.

 

[Hodders]

He has no OS documents except the invoice - no COA, no media etc.

I'll get him to check the eula.txt file....



How would FAST react to "I haven't got the COA, but here is the invoice showing that I paid for it." ?

It may end up being easier to simply buy a new copy - but this seems unfair given that he actually paid for the old one !

Thanks for your help everyone.