Licensing

[squirre777]

The licensing on my servers is all screwed up. How can I remove the old licensing and readd the licenses from scratch?

 

[Davetoo]

What licenses are you referring to?

I'm Certifiable, not cert-ified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[squirre777]

Server 2000 and Exchange 2000 both. In the Licensing snap-in its a mess. I just want to reset everything blank and reinstall. I have just purchased new CALs for Exchange 07 and Server 03 from 2000. I upgraded one of the servers but it still has all the old licensing. Is it possible to just wipe the slate clean and plug in my new licenses?

 

[squirre777]

any suggestions?

 

[Davetoo]

You don't need to bother with those at all...it's just there to "help" the admin keep track, but as you have found, it's a mess. Turn the licensing service off if you'd like, it's not needed.

I'm Certifiable, not cert-ified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[kmcferrin]

Agreed. I never even bothered to use the licensing snapin because it was always screwed up. I sometimes wondered if that was intentional.

At any rate, the only exception to that is the Terminal Services licensing, which has to be accurate for TS to work correctly.