Microsoft makes the following recommendation for setting up ADS --

"Volume licensing (with a single product ID) for the software in the images
you want to install on the devices is recommended. "

Is that a hard and fast rule, or can I simply change the license for each
server that requires it? I have to prep 50 servers for deployment to
multiple locations for multiple customers. Attacking this with ADS would
cut down on a bunch of the work.

Thanks,

Josh

Josh,

you could use individual product ID's for each server. In the properties of
each device within ADS, you can set up system a variables such as ^prodID^
and put that variable into the sysprep.inf and it will inject the prod ID
from the variables of that system being built. I believe there are default
templates for injecting sys variables into the sysprep.inf as part of the
deployment process.

"PEIJosh" wrote:

> Microsoft makes the following recommendation for setting up ADS --
>
> "Volume licensing (with a single product ID) for the software in the images
> you want to install on the devices is recommended. "
>
> Is that a hard and fast rule, or can I simply change the license for each
> server that requires it? I have to prep 50 servers for deployment to
> multiple locations for multiple customers. Attacking this with ADS would
> cut down on a bunch of the work.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
>

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:46:01 -0700, WMJerD
<WMJerD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Josh,
>
>you could use individual product ID's for each server. In the properties of
>each device within ADS, you can set up system a variables such as ^prodID^
>and put that variable into the sysprep.inf and it will inject the prod ID
>from the variables of that system being built. I believe there are default
>templates for injecting sys variables into the sysprep.inf as part of the
>deployment process.
>
>"PEIJosh" wrote:
>
>> Microsoft makes the following recommendation for setting up ADS --
>>
>> "Volume licensing (with a single product ID) for the software in the images
>> you want to install on the devices is recommended. "
>>
>> Is that a hard and fast rule, or can I simply change the license for each
>> server that requires it? I have to prep 50 servers for deployment to
>> multiple locations for multiple customers. Attacking this with ADS would
>> cut down on a bunch of the work.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Josh
>>

Yes, there is the capability to add the system variables for Product
ID and computer name. And the INF files were in the ADS 1.0 and 1.1
setup. You just have to remember to pass the information to the ADS
through the setup when you start an image push.

Mike