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Response about licensing donated Microsoft software:
Microsoft has an 'anti-piracy' division that answers licensing questions. The
number is 1 800 RULEGIT. They helped me with a license number for the OS on a
donated computer.
Greg Doud
gdoud@johnhay.ssd.k12.wa.us
Jennifer Meltzer wrote:
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> Here are some things I've been thinking about regarding licensing.
>
> 1. I appreciate the posting regarding an alternative to WinZip: I was going
> to go search for something like that. One problem solved!
>
> 2. I wanted to second the motion to see a web page with notes regarding site
> or school licenses.
>
> 3. I was wondering if we could coordinate somehow with the district
> inventory folks to see what they have listed both hardware & software wise
> for our school??? Are they any more organized than we are?
>
> 4. I would like to ask about Client Access Licenses. I am assuming that
> each person who gets an Outlook Address has or will have a valid Exchange
> Client Access License, and that we don't need to worry about this at the
> school level. But, what about NT Server Client Access Licenses?? We
> already have a server in our library with NT3.5 on it. Now we've set up a
> file server with NT4.0 evaluation copy. Our 90 days are ticking. We are
> accessing NT Server at the district for certain applications so ???? Please
> explain.
>
> 5. If we have a donated machine, and it is a Compaq or a Gateway and we know
> it was sold with an operating system because ALL of their systems of that
> model are sold with an operating system, we can make an assumption that it
> still has a license? Can we just spreadsheet it as OEM?
>
> 6. We have a parent who has donated a couple of copies of Office 2000, and
> then Microsoft "matches" it with "certificates" for more licenses. We used
> the same CDs to install the program the number of times equal to our
> certificates, but the program says it will crash after 45 uses (or whatever)
> if we do not register it. How does this whole thing work?
>
> Thanks.
> Jennifer Meltzer
> AS#1 Tech Group
> Meltzer_Jennifer@msn.com
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