Scotty

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Updating a Windows License Key

Earlier a friend asked if there was a supported way to change the license key on a server a colleague of his had lovingly spent the day building and configuring but had installed with the wrong license key. Have now found the link I saved the last time this came up which is http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328874 and although it talks about XP a lot also pertains to apply to 2003 although only mentioning the 32 bit version. Will update you once he has a chance to try this on the 64 bit version and let you know if it works.

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Posted: Aug 31 2007, 01:31 PM by Scotty | with 1 comment(s)
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Scotty said:

Some feedback - never do this unless you are using a Volume License key or the box is toast to quote my friend who tried this out in a VM.

I will be testing the tool from Microsoft at www.microsoft.com/.../pkuinstructions.aspx to see if it will work for those situations.

A piece of good advice is also that if you have entered a license key but not yet activated it then choose the manual/phone registration step in the wizard and enter a new license key.

# September 4, 2007 1:23 PM