Hi all, There seems to be all this info on activating servers or Vista blah blah. but there is next to nothing on CALs... where can i find VLK for CALs I want to test SBS 03... but im not going to spend heaps of money buying the cals if its not going to work for me.
Cals are imaginary licensing on-paper only entities. They are not installed etc, there is no number , it is only you saying to MS I need 50 Cals & they sell you a paper (or even not) saying that you have it sebus
You are mostly correct, with the one big exception of SBS03 which strictly enforces the number of licenses you have installed. Even with volume licensing there are no "generic" keys. It "appears" that you can reuse keys from one SBS03 on another, as long as each key on the machine is unique and you don't go overboard about it. Put it this way... when I tried an already used CAL pack on a new server it did not tell me it was already in use, but YMMV.
In that case why not to just "test" full Server 2003 or even 2008 Why insist on SBS03? sebus Edit - links for traing added (credit goes to moriginal poster) hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/237479436/BM_31_wsbs_UDS.part1.rar hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/237478663/BM_31_wsbs_UDS.part2.rar hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/237478349/BM_31_wsbs_UDS.part3.rar
Thanks guys... Well the quick answer is SBS 03 is cheap but yes... you need a key and i cant find any So does anyone know where i can find VLK for CALs for SBS 03??? i mean thats kinda my point... you can find activators for Vista and Windows 7...ect ect... but not CAL keys.
HAHA... well @ least that answers the question about being able to use them more than once Funny, I looked everywhere for something like that, how did you find it? Anyway thanks... so now I know these is no way to get around it and that seems to be more secured then the actual OS keys...
Lol been trying to find a way round this for ages... but alas im sure it dosent exist... if only there was a way of killing the license logging service it would all be good, but for the mo im having to kill it every hour.. someone must know a way round but im guessing it is top secret info! Cheers Dazzler
Hey All SBS versions come with 5 CALs automatically, so if you want to test SBS 2k3/sk8, you only need SBS license number. Just for testing purposes you dont need to have any CAL's, even if you want to connect 75 users to it. But if you want to take it out of your test enviroment you need CAL's from MS.
No, I never found a way around this. But you say if you kill the licence service every hour??? Now if only i could find a tut for the BIOS crack for SBS 2008
Look harder - I posted everything you need ages ago. It is the same as Vista, just different files (again that I posted here ages ago).