Licenses - whose responsibity is it? 1

[YorkeRodda]

We have a pair of NT Servers and on one is Exchange. I am primarily a teacher at our school but also the Network Administrator. When the Network was set up the no of users or stations was not an issue as it was all new .. and the people/company who installed the network did not have any licenses "installed". I in my unsure way went and added what was needed to get rid of the error messages in the Events Viewer and at each stage I gave the date and my name as the person adding them.

Now I am in touble. We are not illegal at all and have the paper license .. it is just that I feel that it was the install company who are responsible to have put in the license data not me. I am not a MSP (MS professonal) and so I have not pretended to have done it correctly - only I do not feel it was my responsibility to have done it in the first time. Can any damage be done by adding the date wrong?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Yorke

 

[Jpoandl]

No damage can be done. In my experience, event viewer messages will appear if licensing is wrong. However, by adding the date wrong, I don't think any problems will arise. Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2000

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[devastator]

If you have the licenses then disable or set to manual the license logging service....under control panel, services.....
I have found that Microsofts licensing servers are a pain anyway.....as long as you know your legal with the licenses and can manually keep track that is what I do....of course I have a SBS anyway that is suppose to limit to 25 connections.


Drew

 

[Zelandakh]

Ignore the licensing service. As detailed above, disable the thing (unless you use SQL server in which case it'll stop things working).

If you know you are legal, it doesn't matter WHEN you became legal, just that you are NOW. Keep hold of the licences and take copies of them off site (disaster recovery item that most people forget).