Great to see you
Pat Furr
We had a wonderful ICRS get together in Phoenix and as always I have learned ideas to improve our programs from our many sharing colleagues. Many thanks to Sarah Commes and Willie Cade for making it such a great conference.
I want to pass on a tip that my tech has discovered. When you try to activate a COA and the web site doesn't accept the activation, check the computer's time and date settings. If the date or time is off, the computer will not activate. It would be nice to receive an error message or some alert as to the cause of the problem.
Richard Quenon from 3c computing in Colorado had some suggestions for the very frustrating problem of uploading a batch file to get product keys only to find the product keys are not issued. We then have to search the history to find each license that shows it has been activated in order to obtain the product key. - Very frustrating. Richard mentioned to be sure you haven't press the enter key twice and that a problem may occur by being timed out from the uploading procedure. Any other ideas?
Pat Furr
PS: Congratulations to Richard Quenon, Bob Townley, and Ryan McDowell in receiving the Jim Lych Award this year! Three C Computing in Colorado has been very willing to share and help others.
Sarah Commes
Thanks Pat!
I agree it was great to see everyone.
Have a great week.
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Michael Furst
You can pretty easily alleviate the issue you are having with the activation issue. You can create a batch file that you would include with the image and run as part of the first step of audit mode. Just add the file location to your answer file. Anyway here is the command:
Net time \\SERVERNAME /set /y
There are some limitations such as the computer having to be a Windows Computer (not necessarily a server). Also the machine must have file sharing enabled. You may have to add a preceding line such as the following to connect with a user name and password:
Net use \\SERVERNAME /u:USERNAME PASSWORD
So your final batch file would look like:
Net use \\SERVERNAME /u:USERNAME PASSWORD
Net time \\SERVERNAME /set /y
Michael Furst
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PC Rebuilders & Recyclers
Home of the Computers for Schools Program
Our warehouse address is 3053 N Knox, Chicago, IL 60641
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From: Sarah Commes
Sent: 11/19/2012 9:35 AM
To: refurb...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Refurbishers List] RE: Great to see you
Ryan McDowell
should work great. It works much better if you have a local NTP
(network time protocol) server in your local deployment network (Helps
reduce the wait time). There are other solutions but Mr. Furst has the
simplest answer to this problem for most refurbishers.
Ryan Mc.
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Michael Furst <mfu...@pcrr.com> wrote:
> Pat,
>
>
>
> You can pretty easily alleviate the issue you are having with the activation
> issue. You can create a batch file that you would include with the image and
> run as part of the first step of audit mode. Just add the file location to
> your answer file. Anyway here is the command:
>
>
>
> Net time \\SERVERNAME /set /y
>
>
>
> There are some limitations such as the computer having to be a Windows
> Computer (not necessarily a server). Also the machine must have file sharing
> enabled. You may have to add a preceding line such as the following to
> connect with a user name and password:
>
>
>
> Net use \\SERVERNAME /u:USERNAME PASSWORD
>
>
>
> So your final batch file would look like:
>
>
>
> Net use \\SERVERNAME /u:USERNAME PASSWORD
>
> Net time \\SERVERNAME /set /y
>
>
>
> Michael Furst
>
> COO
>
> PC Rebuilders & Recyclers
>
> Home of the Computers for Schools Program
>
> Our warehouse address is 3053 N Knox, Chicago, IL 60641
>
> Voice 773-545-7575 Fax 773-545-7502
>
>
> Sent from my Windows Phone
> ________________________________
> From: Sarah Commes