Re: SBS 2000 Licences

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And what version of SBS 2000 is mark running (SP1a or is this an earlier
build?). Also, what is the exact text of the error message Mark's getting.

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"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" <crisnospamhanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:%23J5oHNYWFHA.2796@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
What third party products do you have installed on the server???

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"Mark Barnes (Jao)" <MarkBarnesJao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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They are the same names. So PC1 replaced PC1 etc. The old PCs were
removed
from the domain by changing them to "Workgroup" before unplugging them.

"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

> Did you give the new machines different "computer names" from the old
one?? If so you should delete the old computer names from AD Users and
Comptuers
>
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> Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]
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> "Mark Barnes (Jao)" <Mark Barnes (Jao)@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message news:924D2A33-E4F3-429B-9CC2-32F7B7E52705@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi
>
> We have an SBS2000 server which is telling us we have reached the CAL
limit
> and we need to purchase more licences. Thing is, we havent actually
got
> enough PCs to fill the licence limit, i.e. we have 15 PCs and the
server is
> licenced for 20. As a result machines are losing connectivity for
short
> periods. We have recently swapped machines, i.e. we have gone out and
bout
> 10 machines to replace 10 old ones, so my guess is that the server is
still
> remembering the old 10 machines that have since been assigned to the
scrap
> yard and is thinking we currently have 25 machines attached. It's
been 4
> weeks since the swap over so I would have thought that it would have
released
> the licence by now.
>
> How can I tell which machines the server is assigning a licence to?
How can
> I tell it to stop it? How can I tell it to forget everything and start
from
> scratch again?
>
> PS 5 of the old PCs were replaced by Macs <spits> if that helps


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