Re: floppy

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From: Mal Osborne (malcolmo_at_silverfern.com.au)
Date: 03/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:30:55 +0800

Or alternativly move over the NIC from the old server temporarily. SBS add
packs identify the machine by the MAC address. Another option with many
NICs s to manually change the MAC address of the new NIC to match the old.

Mal Osborne
MCSE MVP Mensa

"Damian N Leibaschoff [MSFT]" <damianl@online.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:e1V$3J6CEHA.1128@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> If you are talking about the client add packs, he will be able to re-use
> them once the server is re-installed, they are going to prompt for a
> password to unlock them, at that point you can contact PSS ((800)
936-4900 )
> (free call, no support case needed), where a customer service
representative
> will ask you for the information and provide you with the unlocking
> password. This has to be done for each client add pack.
>
>
> Regards,
> Damian
>
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> "jmoeglin" <jmoeglin@techdata.com> wrote in message
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> > Hello
> >
> > I have a customer that wants to move his existing Small
> > Business Server 2000 to a new machine. He has 30 users
> > and the question is how does he get the floppy's to
> > complete the install of the clients. He has the orginal
> > floppies but I'm pretty sure they can only be used 1 time.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
>

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