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I spent most of the day downloading 64-bit CD images from various file shares around the company (in theory, because we&#8217;d bought the appropriate licenses, it shouldn&#8217;t matter what media we used) but when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/licensing\/resources\/vol\/\">volume licensing key<\/a> (VLK) that I&#8217;d been given didn&#8217;t work we realised that the disc image we were using was an MSDN version.  After supplying a product key that did work and going through all the hassle of getting the server added to the corporate domain, Windows notified me that I had 55 days left to activate the product, so I finished installing the applications today and then &#8220;upgraded&#8221; using the correct volume license media and key, removing the requirement for product activation.<\/p>\n<p>Another point that&#8217;s worth noting (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.petri.co.il\/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm\">thanks to Daniel Petri for this tip<\/a>) is that the .IMG files that Microsoft provided in the &#8220;ISO only&#8221; download appear to be just <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISO_9660\">ISO 9660<\/a> (.ISO) files with a different file extension.  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