Lee, or MCSE

[Synthohol]

finally i've convinced my employer to BUY 2k server w/25 client licence, so we could be in compliance. we have win98 w/sta's and i want to upgrade them to 2k pro.
how do the licences work? i just invoke licence manager and enter the #s? or use remote install and enter in one of the 25 keys supplied with O/S? i feel so stupid, i'm a registered M$ system builder and i toss out the comunicae's they email all the time. i never have time to attened the webinars so if someone could point me to a link or something to explain the process of my "proposed solution" i would be gratefull!:)


thank you

P.S. all my mcse sybex collection is on the 4.0 track not 2000

[Player0]

Synth, buying MS liscenses is a pain. I usually just contact my Rep at CDW.com and let them do all the dirty work.

MS will send you a letter and a distro CD later on that will have a CD-Key. This will provide legal support for 25 users.

Note: Win2k does NOT check the liscence key. You can basically just tell it how many users you bought. If you buy a 1 client Win2K Server liscence, you could type in 100 in the client liscences box and it won't stop you.

So yeah, you buy the liscence from a distributer, you enter the liscence in liscence manager, and type in how many clients the liscence is good for. Its not that bad. I like CDW.com for this sort of thing.

I recently bought 14 liscenses for Office XP Developer. This was kind of interesting, but the rep walked me through it. Good deal if you ask me :)

[Synthohol]

cdw.com wants 1500.00 for the same 840.00 i pay through my supplier. for 700.00 savings i can do the work!:D
on a side note, can you suggest an on-site and off-site backup stratagie? we have dsl 1500 speed 450 up speed and a cd burner.
in the p4 server itself i plan to mirror 2 40 gigs for redundancy and burn backups of new or modified files and one hdd on the shelf with a master copy of everything up to that date. they refused to go with my fault tolerant scheme (raid 5 and arc serve) so disaster recovery is key here.



thanx again!

[lechumbl]

Hi Steve,

Sorry not to get back to you sooner, my 36 Gig SCSI went TU in the last power outage and I was re-low level formatting it.
That takes a LONG time.
Tom has got you on the right track, so I will butt out and let ya go.

Take care.......