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Change Volumelicense Key

Is there a way to change the volume license Key in Server 2003 Standard ?

The "trick" explained in the Microsoft Knowledgebase is not working (changing a registry key and rerunning activation wizard)

Mazaraat

Try method 2, I know its for XP but it should work for 2003 also:

http://www.petri.co.il/change_the_serial_in_windows_xp.htm

Cassavatech

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Unfortunately this is only a copy / paste solution from a Microsoft Knowledgebase article :( Tried that already ... But thanks anyway

TheCleaner

Why do you need to change it?

Mazaraat

You tried the vb script?

Cassavatech

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@ TheCleaner : Because we have change several licenses and we got a different key
@ Mazaraat : Yes I did :(

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Cassavatech

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I see, ok, then all is fine anyway ....

TheCleaner

Thanks for the quick points...but you should email or call the Volume Licensing team from MS (their number is on the VLS site) and confirm with them if you need to do anything.

We discarded the old keys and are using the new keys for any new installations, but didn't change anything existing, and at no time did MS or the VAR that sold us the EA say anything about swapping out old keys.

Cassavatech

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I think the only difference are MSDN keys ... I know there for a fact that you need to reinstall if you want to bring a server to the production ...