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    Hello All:

     

    I am a  systems engineer for a networking/consultant firm. I am in administrative role on one of our clients' networks. I have a potential problem with MS licensing.

    I can use "Produkey" to retrieve all MS licenses from all pc's on the network. How, though, can I find out if these CD keys are legitimate or who they are licensed to.

    I have found on one pc, manually, a copy of MS Office licensed to a local public educational entity. This has been resolved, but I want to be able to check all pc's for their legitimacy remotely and automatically.

    Can anyone help me with doing this?

    By the way, this network does not host a domain, just a P2P Workgroup with a MS Server 2003 app server.

    Thanks to all for help!

    Monday, December 3, 2007 10:05 PM

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    Hello,

     

    First you can contact the following eOpen site (https://eopen.microsoft.com/EN/default.asp) and confirm what your assigned VLK is for either Office or Windows. Next you can use your favorite search engine and search for the product keys in question and see if they are widely used. Also provide me with the last 15 alpha/numeric numbers for each product key in question.

     

     

    Stephen Holm, MS

     

    Tuesday, January 8, 2008 9:41 PM

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    Hi, I"m in much the same situation....a network full of WinXP computers & no one knows if the cd keys are legit or not. Not very time efficient to be running WGA on every machine! So do we after-the-install site admins who's job is to check the legitamacy of the computers have a better solution? 

    Thanks in advance.

    Tuesday, December 4, 2007 6:50 AM
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    Hello,

     

    First you can contact the following eOpen site (https://eopen.microsoft.com/EN/default.asp) and confirm what your assigned VLK is for either Office or Windows. Next you can use your favorite search engine and search for the product keys in question and see if they are widely used. Also provide me with the last 15 alpha/numeric numbers for each product key in question.

     

     

    Stephen Holm, MS

     

    Tuesday, January 8, 2008 9:41 PM