Vista - Vista Ultima Volume Licensing

I apologize if this question has been answered before.

I have 1 license and another on order. I would like to go ahead and install the second one this weekend (it's a good time) but I know I assume it will not activate. That's not a problem as I have 30 days, right? However, I will likely end up with a different product key than I have for the current license. So my question is:

if I install now and activate next week, will I be able to type in the new product key then or will it require I reinstall or will it just call me a thief and report me to Interpol.

Thanks

There is also a prompt on the install menu that I can install it without a license but that it may not work or cause problems -- that sounds ominous and I decided not to do that.

Windows Vista Ultimate is not available as a Volume License.
Only Windows Vista Enterprise is available for VL licensing.
Please clarify and restate your question.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

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"SteveC" wrote:

I apologize if this question has been answered before.

I have 1 license and another on order. I would like to go ahead and install the second one this weekend (it's a good time) but I
know I assume it will not activate. That's not a problem as I have 30 days, right? However, I will likely end up with a different
product key than I have for the current license. So my question is:

if I install now and activate next week, will I be able to type in the new product key then or will it require I reinstall or will
it just call me a thief and report me to Interpol.

Thanks

There is also a prompt on the install menu that I can install it without a license but that it may not work or cause problems --
that sounds ominous and I decided not to do that.

Learning more about this. Apparently Windows Vista Ultimate can be sold and license as a volume but everyone has a unique key. This is true apparently of Business and Enterprise versions too. But my question still remains if anyone knows. Thanks.

"SteveC" <sconklan.nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message newsE2877B7-4B1A-4EF8-B4D0-812611AB2B38@microsoft.com...
I apologize if this question has been answered before.

I have 1 license and another on order. I would like to go ahead and install the second one this weekend (it's a good time) but I know I assume it will not activate. That's not a problem as I have 30 days, right? However, I will likely end up with a different product key than I have for the current license. So my question is:

if I install now and activate next week, will I be able to type in the new product key then or will it require I reinstall or will it just call me a thief and report me to Interpol.

Thanks

There is also a prompt on the install menu that I can install it without a license but that it may not work or cause problems -- that sounds ominous and I decided not to do that.

Seems clear enough to me. He was talking about quantity and not about any
particular Microsoft program.

In answer, the second copy will behave as a 30 day trial until you provide
the key and activation. To control the version installed, you could even
re-use your original key and then change the key before the 30 days is up.
Interpol won't knock on your door. Nor will Bill's men in black.

Dale


"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
news:E1A8B972-C28C-488D-9A04-060C67AEF95D@microsoft.com...
> Windows Vista Ultimate is not available as a Volume License.
> Only Windows Vista Enterprise is available for VL licensing.
> Please clarify and restate your question.
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows - Shell/User
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "SteveC" wrote:
>
> I apologize if this question has been answered before.
>
> I have 1 license and another on order. I would like to go ahead and
> install the second one this weekend (it's a good time) but I
> know I assume it will not activate. That's not a problem as I have 30
> days, right? However, I will likely end up with a different
> product key than I have for the current license. So my question is:
>
> if I install now and activate next week, will I be able to type in the new
> product key then or will it require I reinstall or will
> it just call me a thief and report me to Interpol.
>
> Thanks
>
> There is also a prompt on the install menu that I can install it without a
> license but that it may not work or cause problems --
> that sounds ominous and I decided not to do that.
>

Install the 2nd operating system but do NOT put in the install key. Remove
the check from the box that says "install when connected to the internet".

You will be able to use the system for 30 days. When you get the new key,
put the code in and activate the 2nd system.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"SteveC" <sconklan.nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
newsE2877B7-4B1A-4EF8-B4D0-812611AB2B38@microsoft.com...
I apologize if this question has been answered before.

I have 1 license and another on order. I would like to go ahead and install
the second one this weekend (it's a good time) but I know I assume it will
not activate. That's not a problem as I have 30 days, right? However, I
will likely end up with a different product key than I have for the current
license. So my question is:

if I install now and activate next week, will I be able to type in the new
product key then or will it require I reinstall or will it just call me a
thief and report me to Interpol.

Thanks

There is also a prompt on the install menu that I can install it without a
license but that it may not work or cause problems -- that sounds ominous
and I decided not to do that.

It is available as Software Assurance apparently; never done that before at our school so unaware of the differences. At any rate, it apparently installs one copy at a time like the retail version.

My question is the same:

I have 1 license and another on order. I would like to go ahead and install the second one this weekend (it's a good time) but I
know I assume it will not activate. That's not a problem as I have 30 days, right? However, I will likely end up with a different
product key than I have for the current license. So my question is:

if I install now and activate next week, will I be able to type in the new product key then or will it require I reinstall or will
it just call me a thief and report me to Interpol.

Thanks

There is also a prompt on the install menu that I can install it without a license but that it may not work or cause problems --
that sounds ominous and I decided not to do that.



"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message news:E1A8B972-C28C-488D-9A04-060C67AEF95D@microsoft.com...
Windows Vista Ultimate is not available as a Volume License.
Only Windows Vista Enterprise is available for VL licensing.
Please clarify and restate your question.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"SteveC" wrote:

I apologize if this question has been answered before.

I have 1 license and another on order. I would like to go ahead and install the second one this weekend (it's a good time) but I
know I assume it will not activate. That's not a problem as I have 30 days, right? However, I will likely end up with a different
product key than I have for the current license. So my question is:

if I install now and activate next week, will I be able to type in the new product key then or will it require I reinstall or will
it just call me a thief and report me to Interpol.

Thanks

There is also a prompt on the install menu that I can install it without a license but that it may not work or cause problems --
that sounds ominous and I decided not to do that.

Thanks Dale and Richard.
"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:eafU63KTHHA.4756@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
Install the 2nd operating system but do NOT put in the install key. Remove
the check from the box that says "install when connected to the internet".

You will be able to use the system for 30 days. When you get the new key,
put the code in and activate the 2nd system.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"SteveC" <sconklan.nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
newsE2877B7-4B1A-4EF8-B4D0-812611AB2B38@microsoft.com...
I apologize if this question has been answered before.

I have 1 license and another on order. I would like to go ahead and install
the second one this weekend (it's a good time) but I know I assume it will
not activate. That's not a problem as I have 30 days, right? However, I
will likely end up with a different product key than I have for the current
license. So my question is:

if I install now and activate next week, will I be able to type in the new
product key then or will it require I reinstall or will it just call me a
thief and report me to Interpol.

Thanks

There is also a prompt on the install menu that I can install it without a
license but that it may not work or cause problems -- that sounds ominous
and I decided not to do that.

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
news:E1A8B972-C28C-488D-9A04-060C67AEF95D@microsoft.com...
> Windows Vista Ultimate is not available as a Volume License.
> Only Windows Vista Enterprise is available for VL licensing.
> Please clarify and restate your question.
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows - Shell/User


You Microsoft people seem like such automatons. Why don't you think past
your little box of expressions and see what he really meant to say.

DH

Automated reply eh Carey? What you said is entirely FALSE! Again, you read
and react, and you need to stop playing the anti-pirating police you think
will earn you your badge from MS, it's really disturbing sometimes.

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
news:E1A8B972-C28C-488D-9A04-060C67AEF95D@microsoft.com...
> Windows Vista Ultimate is not available as a Volume License.
> Only Windows Vista Enterprise is available for VL licensing.
> Please clarify and restate your question.
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows - Shell/User
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "SteveC" wrote:
>
> I apologize if this question has been answered before.
>
> I have 1 license and another on order. I would like to go ahead and
> install the second one this weekend (it's a good time) but I
> know I assume it will not activate. That's not a problem as I have 30
> days, right? However, I will likely end up with a different
> product key than I have for the current license. So my question is:
>
> if I install now and activate next week, will I be able to type in the new
> product key then or will it require I reinstall or will
> it just call me a thief and report me to Interpol.
>
> Thanks
>
> There is also a prompt on the install menu that I can install it without a
> license but that it may not work or cause problems --
> that sounds ominous and I decided not to do that.
>

It's a shame Carey does not know this as you do, considering the knowledge
base links he knows from MS.

"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:eafU63KTHHA.4756@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Install the 2nd operating system but do NOT put in the install key. Remove
> the check from the box that says "install when connected to the internet".
>
> You will be able to use the system for 30 days. When you get the new key,
> put the code in and activate the 2nd system.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
>
>
> "SteveC" <sconklan.nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> newsE2877B7-4B1A-4EF8-B4D0-812611AB2B38@microsoft.com...
> I apologize if this question has been answered before.
>
> I have 1 license and another on order. I would like to go ahead and
> install the second one this weekend (it's a good time) but I know I assume
> it will not activate. That's not a problem as I have 30 days, right?
> However, I will likely end up with a different product key than I have for
> the current license. So my question is:
>
> if I install now and activate next week, will I be able to type in the new
> product key then or will it require I reinstall or will it just call me a
> thief and report me to Interpol.
>
> Thanks
>
> There is also a prompt on the install menu that I can install it without a
> license but that it may not work or cause problems -- that sounds ominous
> and I decided not to do that.