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Dave R.
While reading the review at
http://activewin.com/reviews/software/operating-sys/vista/ I saw that
according to this review, Vista will require periodic reactivation -
Enterprise versions every 180 days, and retail versions every 60.
Can anyone confirm that this is the case and provide details, especially
how this works with OEM versions? Do they fall under the 60 day retail
reactivation cycle or some other cycle? What happens if a reactivation
fails because there is no internet connection? What happens if it
appears there is an internet connection but the reactivation is blocked
because of a firewall?
I'm really hoping that this is not the case since a reasonable portion
of the machines our company sells are standalone business systems that
do not connect to the internet - ever - and some that have very
stringent outbound firewall rules for security reasons. It would be
quite an inconvenience for the operators of these systems to have to
call Microsoft every couple of months to reactivate over the phone...
Regards,
Dave
http://activewin.com/reviews/software/operating-sys/vista/ I saw that
according to this review, Vista will require periodic reactivation -
Enterprise versions every 180 days, and retail versions every 60.
Can anyone confirm that this is the case and provide details, especially
how this works with OEM versions? Do they fall under the 60 day retail
reactivation cycle or some other cycle? What happens if a reactivation
fails because there is no internet connection? What happens if it
appears there is an internet connection but the reactivation is blocked
because of a firewall?
I'm really hoping that this is not the case since a reasonable portion
of the machines our company sells are standalone business systems that
do not connect to the internet - ever - and some that have very
stringent outbound firewall rules for security reasons. It would be
quite an inconvenience for the operators of these systems to have to
call Microsoft every couple of months to reactivate over the phone...
Regards,
Dave