Re: SBS Licensing Problems

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I just found LicenseService event 205 in my application
log. TechNet has this to say about it:

"205 The purchased license data could not be
saved to CPL.CFG.The data is the error code.

"Indicates that changes to license purchase information
could not be saved. The License Logging service may
be able to successfully save the data later. If not, the data
will be lost. Data replicated from other servers will be
received again during the next replication. Data entered
on this server will have to be re-entered."

Over the 5 days I've been messing with this, a new CPL.CFG file has never
been created to replace the renamed original. So this morning, on a hunch,
I renamed the original file back to CPL.CFG and then tried again to
configure licensing according to article 327644. It worked perfectly and no
error message was displayed. The Licensing snap-in shows my entire original
purchase history, plus the new entry just created by following the
instructions in 327644.

What I'd like to accomplish is to start with a clean purchase history and
configure licensing on my servers from scratch. Apparently, deleting the
CPL.CFG file per the instructions in article 153140 isn't always the way to
go, since SBS 2003 (or at least, MY SBS 2003) won't or can't recreate the
file for some reason.

Any thoughts?

Bryan


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