Reimaging rights are granted to all Microsoft Volume Licensing customers. Reimaging is the copying of software onto multiple devices from one standard image. There is a little known legal trick that you can apply. So what can you do to re-image these PCs? Do you need to buy a VL for every single machine? There are benefits to doing that, especially with SA attached, but that’s not for everyone. Businesses hate OEM builds because they are full of crap-ware and unmanaged security vulnerabilities. That means a company that buys hundreds or thousands of PCs, intent on using the OEM license, cannot create a custom image from OEM media (assuming OEM media can even be acquired!). The OEM recovery media should match the product version originally preinstalled on the system no other image can be used to restore the system to its original state An image can be individually recovered by the organization (or a service provider it chooses) by using the recovery media. Organizations do not have the right to reimage by using OEM media.Īn OEM image can only be preloaded on a PC by the OEM during manufacturing. According to a Microsoft licensing brief: You cannot legally deploy an image of an OEM media installation of Windows. Please ask your reseller these questions instead – that’s why they add a margin to the license when they sell it to you, so make them work for it. All emails and comments will be deleted without a response.
As usual, I will not be answering licensing questions.
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