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Let's say I have Group A and B. The people in Group A get an E3 License while people in Group B get a Business Standard License. How do I automate it so that when a user is added in either group, they automatically get assigned the license?
There's a business requirement from management to monitor license utilization. I am looking for a way in Graph to view the number of available Azure Virtual Desktop licenses, and how many of these are in use. The…
Did everything from this article: https://woshub.com/create-custom-windows-image-preinstalled-apps/#comment-11977 Tried to install the image, get to the point I need to enter license key and after entering right key (from the label on the bottom of the…
Dear All, We have an open value agreement and recently we have added an extra SQL license to the agreement. First, we purchased a license for 4 cores then we added 4 cores. Now, how can we use these new extra SQL Server licenses on the existing SQL…
According to SQL SERVER 2019 LICENSING DATASHEET, my understanding is that if I want to license SQL Server Enterprise running on a VM then I need to purchase just core licenses for each virtual core (vCPU) on that VM and NOT physical cores of the host.…
Hello there! So, I've bought a new laptop. And it has Windows home/pro. If it was Retail version, shop then gave me a box or a card with Windows key, so these things + documents supposed to be "proof of the license". If I've got an OEM laptop,…
I'm building a new PC for the first time, and the OS i'm about to use is windows 11 home. I have a laptop with windows 11 home digital license registered, can i use the same license for my PC? Thank you :)
Hey folks My company has headquarters in US but we have many employees located in other regions (i.e Brazil). If I buy Windows licenses through the MS US website, will those licenses work for the employees outside US? Or must I buy via local MS or…
I am supplying and installing some servers for a customer that will be hosted on their site and running Win2022. I need to buy some server licenses and are being advised by the resellers I have contacted that this is no longer permitted and it can only…
GBBs are trying to create environments to deploy Microsoft Sustainability Manager Trial License obtained through Darsy Tool. We have 30 + GBBs in 3 TZ who are trying to execute demos under the Azure Tenant but have not been successful.
We have a Windows 11 Enterprise Edition device that was activated and delivered to our employee for their work. A few months ago, we reinstalled it and added the device to Azure AD + Intune for management, and the license was activated. However, the user…
Buenas hace tiempo llevo queriendo activar windows 10 pero no puedo por el error 0x8007007B vi en otros foros que usaban los siguientes comandos. slmgr -upk slmgr -cpky slmgr -ipk XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX (obviamente use una key valida) slmgr…
I am about to install a new KMS on a Windows 2019 with a Host Key 2019, I currently already have a Windows Server 2016 KMS 2016 where I have activated my infrastructure. My question: Are the teams with 2016 activated always going to renew in my 2016 KMS…
Hello, I've been trying to activate Windows 10 for a while now, but I can't due to error 0x8007007B. I saw in other forums that they used the following commands: slmgr -upk slmgr -cpky slmgr -ipk XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX (obviously using a valid…
Our company is using stand-alone virtual machines (VBox and VMware) to support our customers legacy software (equipment we've sold in the past but still need to support, that was programed with older versions of HMI and PLC controls software). We are…
I have two types of users at my company, Basic users who just need email on their phone who currently use Exchange Online Plan $4/month and Advanced users who need access to Azure Virtual Machines who currently use Business Standard $12/mo. There's about…
Hi, We have our primary corporate email on GCC High, but our license subscriptions are registered to an onmicrosoft.com account which does not have Microsoft365 enabled so receiving email is not an option. How configure the primary email to something…
I know Windows XP is out of service many hears ago. The license key I purchased before may not work now. I'm just wondering if I can still install Windows XP using my XP CP (on a virtual machine) for testing purpose. Thanks Jim
Hi, I specifically needs to install Windows 10 LTSC 2015 version, but as per my information it is not available for sell now. So can I purchase windows 10 LTSC 2021 under volume licensing and can I get media and product key of 2015 version of LTSC…
Hi, my company is selling part of it to a new company and we need to transfer all Microsoft contracts to the new company. We need to transfer Windows 365, Office 365 accounts and data. It is feasible? there are limitations? users will loose their data?