Windows Activation

I finally finished the install of Small Business server 2003 on the virtual server on the laptop this morning. It’s taken forever to do and this morning I had to go through the activation of the software. As the server doesn’t have internet connectivity (yet) I had to do it over the phone. The whole process was simple and straightforward with voice recognition guiding me through the process. After I had read out the 42 (i think) digit number it was time for it to read out the 42 digits. They were split into 7 groups of 6 digits and the funny thing was that it would ask you to say “Go On” at the end of each group if you were ready. I was starting to sound like Mrs Doyle – that annoying woman from the self assessment adverts on tv a couple of years ago – go on, go on, go on!