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Guest Bodie the Dog
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I recently inherited a small network running SBS2003 with about 50 XP Pro

workstations. My predecessor passed away suddenly and didn't document things

well, plus I'm new to the Small Business Server world. Swell. We may have a

licensing issue....

 

Using the Licensing utility I show we have Installed Licenses: 5 and Maximum

Usage: 7. My Computer shows we're running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for

Small Business Server. Winver shows the same, version 5.2 Locked away I

just found 13 license packs (5 devices each) for "Client Access License for

Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Transition Pack."

 

I'd like to get us correctly licensed, but don't even know that the

transition licenses will work. When I attempted to use the License utility

to add licenses, it prompted me for a 25-digit code, yet the paper licenses I

found in the license packs didn't have any codes at all.

 

So will these license packs work? How do I install them? How come I can

attach to the network and domain now, even though we may not be correctly

licensed? Am I creating a problem where one doesn't exist?

 

Thanks in advance, BTD

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