Another point about this OEM sticker business is that the CASE cannot be
replaced thanks to this sticker. We met this issue with a machine whose
nonstandard PSU failed, requiring a mobo-tranfer to a new case, and with
another where the plastic door broke off the case. Both trivial faults, both
technically meant we lost our Windows license.

According to our licence distributor, as long as we have a licence for the
version we want to install (IE I have 300 PCs, and so long as I have 300
licences - in my case 200 XP Pro OEM & 100 Volume Upgrades to XP Pro
(original PCs have 2000 Pro OEMs on them). I can use which ever media I want
/ need to be able to install windows XP Pro on them. I use RIS which uses my
Volume Licence Disk on it.

--
Regards,

John

"Edog" <Edog@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7618B962-9286-4136-8FCA-064C65A1BD87@microsoft.com...
> Trying to understand proper licensing.
>
> We buy ABC brand computers with OEM copies of XP pre-installed.
>
> We would like to reimage those machines with XP from our RIS server so
> that
> we have uniform images across the domain.
>
> Do I have to buy a seperate XP volume license for each machine? Or does
> the
> OEM version allow for a reimage. There is no upgrade or change in the OS,
> simply installing "over" the OEM version that was preinstalled.
>

Thanks John,

But now I am confused. One side says that I can re-install the volume
license version on top of my OEM versions, the other side says that I have to
re-buy a new license for each machine that I want to install a volume license
version on...guess I need to talk to MY distributor.

Thanks.

"John Smith" wrote:

> According to our licence distributor, as long as we have a licence for the
> version we want to install (IE I have 300 PCs, and so long as I have 300
> licences - in my case 200 XP Pro OEM & 100 Volume Upgrades to XP Pro
> (original PCs have 2000 Pro OEMs on them). I can use which ever media I want
> / need to be able to install windows XP Pro on them. I use RIS which uses my
> Volume Licence Disk on it.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> John
>
> "Edog" <Edog@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7618B962-9286-4136-8FCA-064C65A1BD87@microsoft.com...
> > Trying to understand proper licensing.
> >
> > We buy ABC brand computers with OEM copies of XP pre-installed.
> >
> > We would like to reimage those machines with XP from our RIS server so
> > that
> > we have uniform images across the domain.
> >
> > Do I have to buy a seperate XP volume license for each machine? Or does
> > the
> > OEM version allow for a reimage. There is no upgrade or change in the OS,
> > simply installing "over" the OEM version that was preinstalled.
> >
>
>
>