> Using a work Thinkpad T60 laptop with corporate (locked down) installation
> of XP. To facilitate some of the things I need to do, they installed
> VPC2007 for me.
>
> I downloaded the XP ISO from my technet subscription, as well as the
> product ID key. I installed XP within VPC successfully, and now it is
> ready to activate. Phone activation is required because I can't install
> the loopback adapter on the host due to IT security restrictions.
> Unfortunately, even after multiple attempts, the activation window is not
> providing an installation ID. So far, everyone I've been able to reach via
> the activation hotline tell me that without an installation ID, they can't
> help me (and shuffle me to customer support). Customer support isn't
> familiar with the VPC at all, and seems to want to try to get someone else
> to replace my product ID (which scares me, because I don't know if the new
> one will function in the same way as the multi-PC license for the technet
> subscription).
>
> Does anyone have any idea why a guest XP OS wouldn't provide an
> installation ID within VPC2007?
>
> Thank you,
> Keith
>