The company I work for currently has Volume Licenses applied for several Windows VM's. When we sell are product we want remove our volume license so the buy can apply theirs. Is this possible?
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The company I work for currently has Volume Licenses applied for several Windows VM's. When we sell are product we want remove our volume license so the buy can apply theirs. Is this possible?
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Something doesn't sound right with this idea. What product or type of product are you selling? Is it something with a Windows PC attached or connected to it? If so, your company retains the license but you include the cost to procure that license in the price of the product. I would think that such a practice could lend itself to issues with customer support. Another issue is comes with activation instances. When you by volume or MAK licensing, you have some fixed number of activations. Removing the product code won't undo an activation instance. If having the customer provide their own license is an advantage somewhere just don't install the software they are already licensed for.
Now while there are license key changers on the web, this one is best answered by Microsoft since they control all the keys and licenses.
You don't want your Volume License Key revoked by breaking their rules.
Format the drive, run DBan on it, then install a 30 day evaluation copy of windows 10 on it direct from microsoft.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO