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Vipsa
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Posted - 2009-03-05 : 10:37:20
Hello everyone. I find myself in an unusual position. I have to rebuild one of our environments and need to use our SQL 2008 Enterprise to set up clustering.The problem is that I have no idea where our Enterprise license key is. Now I have the software installed on one of our DB servers( which is going down) but Belmanage doesn't pick it up, neither do any of the other key retrieval programs that I tried. Now, I'm sure there's a way to find the key that's on the server, just not sure how to go about it. It should be translated somewhere into the registry, or maybe a sql 2008 license key retrieval tool exists, so can anyone point me in the right direction here. I'm at a point where I need to start clustering on the new environment and this is holding me up. Thanks.

tkizer
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Posted - 2009-03-05 : 13:09:12
Contact your Microsoft representative or whoever sold you the license.

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Vipsa
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Posted - 2009-03-05 : 13:25:08
It's an MSDN or action pack license, can't remember. Highly doubt MS will just give us another one.
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tkizer
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Posted - 2009-03-05 : 16:04:49
I'm not saying that Microsoft will give you another one, I'm saying ask them what the license number is for the software that you are using.

I don't think license numbers are needed with an MSDN installation.

But I believe you can find the license number in the registry, I just don't have it memorized and am short on time right now.

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