SBS 2003 Open Value License Part Numbers

Any clients we are picking up or upgrading we are putting into an Open Value License with the 3 year spread payment option.

Here are some Open Value license + Software Assurance part numbers for you:

• T75-00927: SBS 2K3 Premium with 5 CALs
• T74-01746: SBS 5 User CAL Pack
• P73-01420: Windows Server 2003/8 Standard

Office 2007:

• 269-09046: Office 2007 Pro Plus
• 269-09061: Office 2007 Pro Plus Software Assurance ONLY (for clients with Licenses)
• W87-00356: Office 2007 Small Business Edition
• 021-07257: Office 2007 Standard
• 076-03395: Office Project Standard 2007

Desktop OS:

• 66J-01418: Vista Business with Vista Enterprise Software Assurance Up + SA.
• WSB-00073: Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (shown per month - need 12/seat)

System Center Essentials:

• UCH-00357: Microsoft System Center Essentials - license & software assurance
• DJA-00834: Microsoft System Center Essentials Server Management License - license & software assurance
• 4PX-01112: Sys Cntr Essntls ClientML Sngl Lic/SA Pack OLV 20 NL 1YR Acq Y1 Promo
• A5S-00457: Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager - License & software assurance - 1 server - additional product, 1 Year Acquired Year 1 - Open Value - Win - English
• CVA-00079: Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Standard Server ML - License & software assurance - 1 operating system environment (OSE) - additional product, 1 Year Acquired Year 1 - Open Value - Win - Single Language
• SNA-00274: SYST CTR VRTL MACH MGRWGE SNGL LIC/SA PACK OLV NL 1YR ACQ Y1 PROMO

Remember, right now the best value on the planet for our clients is an Open Value Agreement on their new SBS 2003 purchase.

What client is going to argue with a substantially reduced price for the upgrade:

• Included
• Free
• Aux Gratis
• Etc ...

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists

*All Mac on SBS posts are posted on our in-house iMac via the Safari Web browser.

Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack Links

These links should have been with the last post! :D

Microsoft Desktop Optimization:

• Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance Page
• Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack - Tools
• Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack On-Demand Webcast
• Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance - Wipro TCO White Paper
• MDOP on Microsoft Downloads

A snapshot of the toolset included in MDOP:


The above PDF is here: Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset.

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists

*All Mac on SBS posts are posted on our in-house iMac via the Safari Web browser.

MDOP 2008 Available for download for Open Licensing Clients

This update must have appeared relatively recently, as we did not see it until we logged in today:

MDOP 2008 Download

The big thing for us and what was our current Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2007 edition was the discovery of not being able to work with a Windows Vista installation that had a lost local admin password. The user had set things up so that once they were configured they did not need the admin account for any changes.

Booting to ERD Commander 2005 (a part of MDOP 2007) to change that admin password led us to the message that ERD Commander could not find any supported operating systems!

The MDOP 2008 download is a compressed file that upon extraction we could see:

ERD Commander 2005 plus two new files for 2008

Prior to running the Recovery Tools setup, the following files will be needed:

• Install Debugging Tools for Windows 32-bit Version
• Install Debugging Tools for Windows 64-bit Version (note Itanium version too)
• Download Windows Symbol Packages (if required)
• Debugging Tools for Windows - Overview page

We ran the x64 version of the MSI file as this workstation is running Windows Vista x64.

Here are some highlights from the install routine:

1. A Windows Vista DVD will be required to create the image:


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  Vista DVD required. ISO will not work.

2. Note that if the ERD setup is being run on x64 architecture, then the DVD for the image must also be an x64 based Vista OS.


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3. The setup will ask which tools need to be installed onto the bootable disk, we left the default which was the complete set.
4. Setup will ask for the Windows Debugging tools. Note the default folder location setup requests:


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5. Once the above files have been downloaded and installed, the folder location will actually look like this:


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6. The Standalone System Sweeper will request a definition download which we allowed. Note that the download may take a few minutes.
7. We are then presented with a request for additional drivers to be installed into the WinPE environment:


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8. Because we work primarily with Intel products, we made sure all of the regularly used RAID and NIC drivers were extracted and ready to install:


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9. We are then presented with the opportunity to add any additional files and folders that will be accessible once we boot to WinPE:


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10. Remember that any additional drivers and utilities that would be made available must be in the x64 flavour to work. We have a couple of bootable flash drives, one for x86 and one for x64 WinPE. We use them to install our lab images onto our lab systems. So, we pulled some of the necessary utilities from them to this WinPE setup too.
11. The ISO image will be generated to a folder we select.
12. Once the ISO image has been completed, we are presented with the option to burn it to a DVD.

The ERD Commander utility has more than paid for our Windows Vista Software Assurance. It provides us with a simple way to get into any system, whether DC, domain member, or standalone, to change the admin password. Thus we do not have to go through the pain of trying to figure out the plethora of other "admin password change solutions" out there.

There are also a huge number of additional utilities included with Windows Vista Software Assurance. It is well worth the expense.

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists

*All Mac on SBS posts are posted on our in-house iMac via the Safari Web browser.

System Builder Tip: Get the Winternal's Admin Pack - Or Vista SA & Get it Free!

Mark Minasi's Supporting Windows Vista audio CDs that I purchased a little while ago just paid for itself a thousand times over.

How?

He mentions during his introduction on CD 1 that the Winternal's Admin Pack would soon be introduced as one of the free parts of Vista's Software Assurance benefits.

So, off to Winternal's site I go to find out more. They do indicate that the Admin Pack is available for the time being, but soon to be only offered to Vista Software Assurance clients with a link to the Vista SA site.

On the Vista SA site, check out those tools at the bottom that are going to be included as well!

(Best Daffy Duck) Ohhh Booyyy! Ohh Booyyy!

Vista Software Assurance is really kewl!

SKU for Open Value Year 1: 66J-01283 (minimum 5 on the first order & 3 year commitment).
Vista Business Retail SKU: 66J-00002

If you need to use the Admin Pack tools now, go for it. One can save you from having to flatten a domain for a changed and forgotten SBS Admin password, or from having to muck around trying to figure out how to use the "tools" that are out there to do it. We have had very little success with those "tools".

We have worked with a company that has the Admin Pack tools, and they demonstrated the method to change the domain admin password in one server reboot on one of our virtual SBS test boxes. I was impressed to say the least.

Legit is where it's at! :D

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists