Bumppack Cannot Be Reused to Upgrade SBS Client Licenses

 Last reviewed: March 5, 1998
Article ID: Q177962
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Windows NT Workstation versions 4.0
  • Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 4.0
  • Microsoft BackOffice Small Business Server version 4.0

SUMMARY

The Microsoft BackOffice Small Business Server Client Add Pack or BumpPack can only be used once to increase the number of client licenses. If the License Add Pack is used to bring the server up from a 5 user license to a 10 user license, it will only bring the server up to 10 user license and cannot be reused to increase the number of user licenses. The disk can, however, be reused if the server has to be reinstalled and the number of client licenses needs to be increased to the original number.

MORE INFORMATION

If an attempt is made to reuse the Add Pack (for example, to upgrade from 10 licenses to 15 licenses), the following message will be displayed: 

   This Microsoft Small Business Server Client Add Pack disk was already
   used to increase client licenses from 5 to 10. This disk can only be
   reused to restore licenses from 5 to 10 users.
The Microsoft BackOffice Small Business Server has a maximum of 25 user licenses. Furthermore, if a customer buys a pack with 25 licenses or upgrades the server licenses, using BumpPacks, to a total of 25 licenses, when he or she attempts to apply a new BumpPack, the customer will receive a message informing the customer that the maximum number of licenses has been exceeded and the process will not complete successfully.

Additional query words: smallbiz SBS reuse limit upgrade license
Keywords : ntdomain ntlicense NTSrvWkst sbs kbnetwork
Version : WinNT:4.00
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbinfo

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Last reviewed: March 5, 1998
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