Comments on: Windows activation annoyances – not one but two

By: tim

tim — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:22:08 +0000

Ross

Well, there is always the trial approach. Let us know if you get a sensible answer from HP though, or the LHBL.vbs script.

Tim

By: Ross

Ross — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:25:39 +0000

Hi Guys,

I came accross the same problem and have so far spent about 6 hours in total talking to HP and still no result. How ever there is a Advisory Document on the HP website that is worth a read except for when you get to Step 3(Thats is where i am at but no luck finding the File). HP have no idea what the problem is!

Ross

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:05:57 +0000

Can you ping me directly because something is not right. As far as we’re aware it shouldn’t bios check you in order to set up that virtual.

By: tim

tim — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:33:09 +0000

@Susan

There’s a ton of Product IDs in the package:

One for SBS physical
One for 2nd server physical
One for SBS virtual
One for 2nd server virtual

plus a few for SQL

The one that was obscured was 2nd server physical – which is needed for the hyper-v host.

Since the product specifically comes with a product key for sbs virtual you would think it is supported; but the media supplied fails because of a pre-check for HP hardware.

Tim

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:32:36 +0000

P.S. you can slrearm that eval and tell it to go away.

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:31:51 +0000

Mind you I’m more familiar with Volume license and not OEM media but there’s typically two product keys. One is a key to be used on a physical install, the other is a key to be used in a virtual install.

So that I’m clear you installed a base Win2k8?

And then tried to put the OEM of SBS 2008 in that HyperV platform?