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Matching COA's with Product ID's

Asked by Smileyman in Miscellaneous Software

Tags: id, coa, product

I am trying to audit the company I work for to make sure their software licences are legit and correct.

I have found several different Certificates of Authneticity (COA's) for software such as Windows 2000 or MS Office. Some Certificates are affixed to the computer but some are still with the CD or on separate sheets. The OEM versions of these certificates should have been stuck to the coresponding PC but some were not.

My problem now is to try and match the COA with the correct PC. Does anyone know of a way this can be done....mathc the product key on the CAO to the product key generated on the PC. I know I can just list all my PC's and just match the number of licences bought to the number of PC's but there has to be a way of matching them after the fast. I have a bunch of PC's for example that have Office XP Pro on them and I have a pile of CD's with COA's on them but I have no way of matching which PC goes with which COA.

This would also make loading needed components of a software package like Office onto a PC as you need the correct version of the software to do it....ie. OEM, retail...etc...etc...

I am using Microsoft Software Inventory Analyzer to search my network and report back all the software loaded on all the PC's. This is great but I have to manually add in the licence keys...as far as I can see. I was hoping it would also extract the product Id and then I could match it to a COA.

Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks
Smileyman

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