PID and license stickers

[Kramer]

After you enter your PID that you get from a MS OEM into your image, does
each client then need a license sticker in front of the pc? Are these
license stickers each unique? Does each client then have to enter that
number into the OS or does the fact that it is embedded, created from a
valid PID take care of that?

 

[Brad Combs]

Hi Kramer,

You can use one of the license numbers for Target Designer and as long as
each device has a valid sticker it's OK. You don't have to create an image
for each PID or enter it anywhere in the image after FBA. Unless of course
you want to for some personal reason.

HTH,
Brad

 

[Gordon Smith \(eMVP\)]

After you enter your PID that you get from a MS OEM into your image,
does each client then need a license sticker in front of the pc? Are
these license stickers each unique? Does each client then have to
enter that number into the OS or does the fact that it is embedded,
created from a valid PID take care of that?

Each unit needs to have a sticker attached even though the image doesn't
have it's own unique PID. The #'s on the stickers are unique, but they
aren't #'s that would be entered into the image. The image will be built
with one (and only one) PID. That PID will be the same on every copy made
of the image. What makes each copy legal is the presense of an authentic
sticker affixed "in an accessible location" on your box. The determination
of what location is "accessible" is for the OEM to determine. If inside the
chassis is "accessible" to you then you're fine. That just means that if MS
ever asks for you to "prove" that you have a legal copy, you'd be obliged to
open your chassis to prove it.