I purchased SBS 2003 Premium, pre-installed on a poweredge 1600 in Dec 2004. Up till now all has been working fine.
I recently had problems with sharepoint, so decided to /remove/reinstall as per KB 829114.
I was asked to insert SBS disk 3 & this is where my problems began!!!
I have the following four CDs
Operating system disc 1 0f 4
Operating system disc 2 of 4
Application: MS office (outlook 2003 I believe) & Frontpage 2003
Application: Premium edition technolgies (ISA 200 & SQL server 2000)
The system came pre-installed by DELL so I never needed to use these discs until now!
I suspect I'm missing Operating system discs 3 & 4.
When I contacted DELL they initially said they could send me a replacement media set, but then revised that statement to declare that they only had SBS 2003 R2 which wouldn't work for my installation, due to different licence key structure. They suggested I contact Microsoft.
Microsoft said that said that since the software was OEM, DELL, would have to support it.
Now I'm stuck!. Can anyone advise where I could get copies of the media (discs 3 & 4) (Physical CDs or downlaodable iso images). I dont believe that Iwould be contravening any EULA by obtaining these.
I have a DELL PowerEdge SC420 server which was bought with SBS 2003 STD (+5CAL). I recently moved out of the office, and realized that the installation media for this server vas lost. DELL support has informed me that this installation media is no longer available, and I am now stuck with a server without OS.
In my desperate hunt for replacement for my OS disks, I stumbled upon this old post.
Du you still have this disk set, Murr? Would there be any chance that you could make ISO images of these disks available to me? I can document my CAO/license, the service tag, if you wish.
Kind of funny, but I just received a Poweredge SC420 from a friend in the UK and he was used SBS 2003 as a Web server. There is an operating system on it, but there is also no media for this machine. Have you any experience with nLite? What I wanted to do is create an image from the existing operating system and burn this to a CD. The problem with this is that OEM software cannot be used for this process to my knowledge. Otherwise I would create such an image and send it to you. You would have to burn it your own CD and then install it. Don't know though whether this will work!
"Media replacement for users of system builders' computers. If you purchased your software from a system builder who is no longer in business, click the link for your region in the following list:", since DELL has confirmed to me that they are no longer able to proved the installation media.
I will update you if I receive these disks from Microsoft.
Thank you very much for the info about reordering, will give it a shot and see whether Microsoft can still provide this media! What the torrent concerns, my feeling tells me to stay away from it ! But thank you for the pointer and I wish you luck too with Microsoft !
I'm looking for install disk #1 and #2 from Microsoft Server premium (t75-00035) I can use OEM or Retail. Please help email is [ADMIN NOTE: Email address removed per privacy policy]
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Posted July 30th, 2007 20:00