How can you tell if your client has OEM, Retail Box or Volume License software?

This is why customers despise licensing

A voice in the wind.... — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:49:46 GMT

The manual and EULA are required as well?

No wonder people feel threatened whenever we start talking licensing...

OEM software is fine for *small business* servers and sites less than 10 people. We're there to make their business run (and make it legit), not scare them into what they think as "Microsoft tracking our software" - as much as it's untrue.

re: How can you tell if your client has OEM, Retail Box or Volume License software?

mssmallbiz — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:08:40 GMT

@ Voice in the wind: Yes, of course the EULA is required. The EULA is the End User License Agreement, which is their actual license. Why would they have a license if they lost their license?

re: How can you tell if your client has OEM, Retail Box or Volume License software?

Andy — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:36:03 GMT

Couple of related questions on this - are you saying that you need all of the above to show proof of purchase?

Also, as far as the open/mvls licensing goes - I've had a couple of cases where I've taken over IT and the client has no idea what licences they have purchased in the past - OR they may have some entered in the mvls website but how do I check that all the licences they have purchased are in there - unless i have i) the passport account and password ii) the agreement number and iii) the the authorization number I can't tell what software has been purchased, which means that licences CAN be lost if mvls has been used.

How can you tell if your client has User or Device CALs for their server?

Microsoft Small Business Community Blog — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:11:44 GMT

I saw a question recently from a Partner stating that they had a new client and were trying to determine

How can you tell if your client has User or Device CALs for their server?

Noticias externas — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:30:52 GMT

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re: How can you tell if your client has OEM, Retail Box or Volume License software?

mssmallbiz — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:10:46 GMT

@ Andy: The proof of licensure requirements are posted directly on the Software Asset Management page at: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sam/what_basics_licensingDocs.mspx. This is the same link I included in my post above. As for losing a Volume License, they cannot be lost. A customer can request a license report from Microsoft and have their Volume License Agreement numbers sent to them so that they can access them, even if they forgot what the agreement numbers were and had logged in previously. With OEM and Retail Box, once they are gone, they are gone.

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Microsoft Small Business Community Blog — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:38:14 GMT

I have seen a conversation taking place in one of the online forums about how Microsoft Office is licensed

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