Since these are all licensed the same (8 Pro), you only require a single VL in order to have reimaging rights on all of them. much easier.įor any kind of reimaging, you must have volume licensing. Get a test machine, create reference images loaded with updates and programs you will need from a fresh install of Win7pro, then run sysprep with your answer file referenced in the command, and boot into your WindowsPE or other boot package disk before the computer has a chance to boot to the hard drive.īut all that aside, volume key will make this much easier.
Many ways you can do the imaging, I would recommend starting with Windows AIK and reading through some documentation there, creating a WindowsPE disk, Imagex.exe files, and once you get the feel for everything, get yourself some Symantec Ghost, or another much more user-friendly imaging software. Takes a lot of the headache away for legal stuff, and also you can create images with applications everyone needs, or even tailored images with applications and updates already installed, then apply those images to each machine.Īnd if you use a sysprep answer file, you can automate things on down to the volume license key too (plug in the one key to the answer file when you build it, then each time you boot up a new computer using that image, it's already loaded with the key :) ). And we can sit here all day and say that it is "Confusing" but it really isn't:
Listen, MS employees entire teams of software professionals and lawyers whose sole responsibilities are to ensure that you as a "consumer" of their product can only do what they deem with specific products. Yet there is always someone who thinks they can circumvent the user agreement by some obscure loop hole. You now have 24 hours invested in a conversation that has been had countless times on countless forums and the results are always the same. It makes not difference if you're deploying an unchanged OEM image or a VL image, you cannot deploy images without the VL key.
Therefore, as I understand it, and seems to be confirmed elsewhere on other blogs/sites etc, ( Opens a new window) you can only do imaging if you have at lease one single VL in place. "Reimaging rights are granted to all Microsoft Volume Licensing customers"
"What is reimaging? At a high level, if you have a Volume License (VL) agreement you are permitted to create an image " Having read this, and the linked full licensing brief Opens a new windowĪs far as I can tell, both these links relate to the rights you have if you have volume licensing in place. I could be pulling an irrelevant article but it seems pretty legit to me. According to this you can even use OEM images as long as it is going to a machine that was already imaged with it and is the same hardware.
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