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Microsoft Volume Licensing

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leeishom

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Hey Guys,

Just wanted to ask - besides engaging the process of obtaining a MS Gold Partner membership and dealing with vendors whom can supply; is there another approach to gain a volume licensing account, scoping MS Office and OS keys?
 
Yeah you can register as a Microsoft Partner, which is free and buy the Action Pack subscription which is like $400 or so a year, gets you roughly $20,000.00 worth of software that is for internal use only, meaning you can't install it on your friends, wife's, brothers's computer.
 
Call CDW and order 5 or more licenses and they will open an VLSC for your email
 
Cardinals said:
Microsoft Partner Program is it. https://mspartner.microsoft.com/en/no/pages/membership/enroll.aspx
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ashman said:
Yeah you can register as a Microsoft Partner, which is free and buy the Action Pack subscription which is like $400 or so a year, gets you roughly $20,000.00 worth of software that is for internal use only, meaning you can't install it on your friends, wife's, brothers's computer.
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If you were running a business that sold or serviced Microsoft products, and always wanted the latest OS editions, then it would be the way to go, but I don't think it's designed for other types of businesses. The licenses that are granted are limited (only 10 desktop OS licenses etc).

Partner Program License Information.
 
If you're planning on volume licensing anything new (Server 2008/2012, W7/W8, Office 2010/2013) you'll want to go the KMS route.
 
shade91 said:
If you're planning on volume licensing anything new (Server 2008/2012, W7/W8, Office 2010/2013) you'll want to go the KMS route.
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As long as you have 5 sysprepped desktop/network operating systems, and 5 prepared Office clients (Office 2010 sysprep is done differently).
 
bigdogchris said:
As long as you have 5 sysprepped desktop/network operating systems, and 5 prepared Office clients (Office 2010 sysprep is done differently).
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All you have to do is rearm 5 different windows OS's and 5 different Office installs. You don't have to install 5 totally different systems.

PS, I hate KMS, when it works its good, but when it doesn't the troubleshooting can be a pain, not to mention the issues it has with Citix provisioning serices.
 
k1pp3r said:
All you have to do is rearm 5 different windows OS's and 5 different Office installs. You don't have to install 5 totally different systems.

PS, I hate KMS, when it works its good, but when it doesn't the troubleshooting can be a pain, not to mention the issues it has with Citix provisioning serices.
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Agreed. I liked the old fashioned corporate key. it made life easier. MS thinks this will stop piracy however hackers just created localized KMS servers to re-arm a machine every 180 days.
 
I actually prefer KMS. Been running at the office since day 1 and I've only ever had a problem with Office 2013 (they didn't release the KMS license pack right away).

I like being able to just build a machine and not have to worry about activating in. I'm looking forward to moving to AD 2012 to move KMS into AD so it can activate as soon as machines join the domain. That will make things a little more secure, since anyone can activate a machine on any network with a KMS server.
 
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