Running an old Server 2003. ( I know its not advised, but we are)
So hard disk completely fails over the weekend and we restore everything from backups fine. One slight thing is that reactivation is required (because added a tape drive and a LAN card.
So activation doesn't work over the internet - server not there. Phone up and of course I'm told its not supported any longer.
I saw on another forum the for another product that it could be possible that the server address is different, if you modify hosts file or DNS its possible to activate.
I was hoping that someone might know the server address used for activation that might have legacy ones. I am really not sure how it works though so maybe this is not possible.
Any other suggestions would be more than welcome otherwise I will have to resort to a crack / unlicensed product key (or upgrade) aren't I?