Office XP SBE Licence query

Hi,

Can someone help me with the following:

I have inherited 20 Office XP SBE licences that came pre-installed
with the computers. I can't create an administrative install from
these.

If I purchase a VLK Media Mit from MS for Office XP and only install
Word, Excel and Outlook for those 20 machines (still the original
machines). Would I be in breach of any licence?

Thanks,

Dan

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, DanF asked:

| Hi,
|
| Can someone help me with the following:
|
| I have inherited 20 Office XP SBE licences that came pre-installed
| with the computers. I can't create an administrative install from
| these.
|
| If I purchase a VLK Media Mit from MS for Office XP and only install
| Word, Excel and Outlook for those 20 machines (still the original
| machines). Would I be in breach of any licence?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Dan

I don’t know why you want to create Admin Install for the machines which already has XP Office preinstalled. I suggest the following:

1) Run the following utility on each machine to obtain the product keys for the machines and write these down on sticky labels and stick them at the back of the machines.

http://www.magicaljellybean.com/downloads/kf141.zip
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/keyfinder.exe

2) Now logon on EBay and see who is selling Office XP CDs and buy just one copy for future reinstall in case of hard disk crash. People do have these problems quite a lot on these Newsgroups!! Also, make sure you have kept 3 copies of the CDs you buy so that installing Service Packs bcomes easy!!

Microsoft will NOT sell you any volume licenses for Office XP as they want to oush their latest software o generate more revenue for poor old Bill Gates. You could buy 20 VLKs for Office 2003, or wait until next year for Office 2005.

You already have 20 licenses, OEM though, but who cares unless you want to create more work (i.e. make yourself look busy – mind you I used to work for an American Corporation in London – Tyco remember? where I found that Americans like keeping themselves busy pen pushing!) for you to reinstall Windows XP and Office XP on each machine.

There is nothing illegal in what I have said because you have inherited the machines and therefore the licenses that came with them. When you say inherited do you mean you have just changed jobs and so you are now in charge of the IT systems?

Hope this helps.


DanF wrote:

Hi,

Can someone help me with the following:

I have inherited 20 Office XP SBE licences that came pre-installed
with the computers. I can't create an administrative install from
these.

If I purchase a VLK Media Mit from MS for Office XP and only install
Word, Excel and Outlook for those 20 machines (still the original
machines). Would I be in breach of any licence?

Thanks,

Dan

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