I work for a large company. I am reimaging 50 laptops that at one point
were already activated. Upon reimaging I have to re-enter the COA Key for
each one as it comes out of its post-sysprep process & then it requests
activation once again. How can I get around this? I do not have a select
license. Their is an M/S TechNet whitepaper which describes how to get
around this, but it is not working as described. Windows activation counter
continues to decrease by one each day even though pop-up states 'this copy of
windows has already been activated'. If someone out there could help w/this,
I would greatly appreciated it.

Product Activation Changes
http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/part...ctivation.mspx


Volume Licensing and Product Activation
http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/activation_volume.mspx

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/


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"lakerman" wrote:

| I work for a large company. I am reimaging 50 laptops that at one point
| were already activated. Upon reimaging I have to re-enter the COA Key for
| each one as it comes out of its post-sysprep process & then it requests
| activation once again. How can I get around this? I do not have a select
| license. Their is an M/S TechNet whitepaper which describes how to get
| around this, but it is not working as described. Windows activation counter
| continues to decrease by one each day even though pop-up states 'this copy of
| windows has already been activated'. If someone out there could help w/this,
| I would greatly appreciated it.