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What would you do if

1. you paid for a licence key for a Microsoft portal server product 
2. the vendor sends you the key
3. you notice that the same key is printed in an official Microsoft course book
4. you raise an issue with the vendor, suspecting some kind of fraud
5. they say it's your companies VLK and all is ok

(the vendor is an international business, it's company sanctioned, and we use them for most software licensing)

 

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I would suggest take it up with Microsoft.

One of the 2 sides (the vendor, or Microsoft) made some mistake somewhere down the line.

Better to keep your behind covered.

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The Question is the Answer, and the Answer is the Question!

Quite often keys are not as unique as one assumes, sometimes they're just there to obfuscate. What's more relevant is that you have paid for a license. A whole company using the same key would not be an issue (I'd imagine), so long as each had bought a separate license.

So I'd check that the license is legit, and that I can verify it. Then I'd call the BSA, and see if I could get a piece of that R100,000 reward they're advertising .

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just phoned MS.

apparently, the entire world uses the same VLK for sharepoint 2007 Enterprise as it's a "static key"

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DoubleJ:

just phoned MS.

apparently, the entire world uses the same VLK for sharepoint 2007 Enterprise as it's a "static key"

That's interesting to know.

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The Question is the Answer, and the Answer is the Question!

DoubleJ:

What would you do if

I'd say that's more of a quandary than a dilemma.  

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ProfK:

[I'd say that's more of a quandary than a dilemma.  

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You cannot make anything fool-proof... Fools are too inventive

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