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connie_pilot - 30 Dec 2007 11:39 GMT

I am a member of TechNet Plus Direct and have downloaded the ISO files for
Server 2003 Enterprise and Windows XP Professional. I have installed them to
several VPC's in small networks for testing and practice purposes. However,
they require activation codes and if I try to activate the same code more
than once in a given time period it will probably raise alarms. Is there
some way around this so that I don't have to rebuild these networks over and
over again to avoid the activation mechanism?

Any help greatfully appreciated!!!

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Bo Berglund - 30 Dec 2007 12:13 GMT

>I am a member of TechNet Plus Direct and have downloaded the ISO files for
>Server 2003 Enterprise and Windows XP Professional. I have installed them to
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>Any help greatfully appreciated!!!

I don't know about TechNet, but I am an MSDN subscriber and we get to
activate several instances of the operating systems using the same
activation key (which is downloaded from Microsoft after you have
logged in as your account).
I think that the limit is 10 activations or so.

Bo Berglund

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Colin Barnhorst - 30 Dec 2007 15:17 GMT

Yes, it is 10. Reactivations do not count against the ten. It is
activation on 10 machines, not activation 10 times, so you might have to
reactivate on each of the 10 machines several times due to hardware changes
but you still would not exceed the activation limit.

>>I am a member of TechNet Plus Direct and have downloaded the ISO files for
>>Server 2003 Enterprise and Windows XP Professional. I have installed them
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> Bo Berglund

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Colin Barnhorst - 30 Dec 2007 15:56 GMT

Note: Technet may only provide 5 activations, but it works the same way as
MSDN.

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