Guest Zeno Posted December 17, 2007 Posted December 17, 2007 Hi..... I have come across something strange performing a Win2k3 Server Ent. Edition repair reinstall. As I'm performing a regular test by doing a DR recovery of our Win2k3 Domain Controllers in our test lab to different hardware. What I've done so far is; 1. Perform standard Win2k3 Ent Edition install from CD 2. Taken the System State backup from our production server and restored to a test lab machine 3. Perfrom a "repair reinstall" because hardware is different and it wouldn't boot up What I've found is during the repair installation it asks for the serial key which I entered and it worked fine, but then after the full repair when I logged into Windows I found that it prompts for the serial key and requires me to register on the internet. I have done this kind of repair in the past and it hasn't required me "register on the internet/telephone" again to do that, we are using volume license and I don't understand why it asks me to register again otherwise it will expire in 30 days. Has MS changed something with its licensing, has anyone got any ideas............ Many thanks..........
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