Comments on: Finding the number of the beast

Question: Finding the number of the beast

southof40 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:40:56 -0800

Anyone know of a tool to automatically extract 'Product Keys' from Microsoft Products installed on your machine ?

Sometime ago we bought a 'Developer' copy of SQL Server. It turns out that in agreeing to buy this we gave Microsoft the right to audit every machine in the company (or at least that's what they're saying and frankly it's easier to assume they're correct than otherwise).

Part of what they want to know is Product Keys for some categories of software.

It would be nice to have a tool which extracts product keys automatically - is there such a thing ?

.. and for anyone else offered a 'Developer' copy think about whether the discount involved is worth the time required for this sort of nonsense - if I'd understood what was buried in the EULA my answer would have been an unequivocal no !

By: holgate

holgate — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:48:25 -0800

ProduKey?

By: B(oYo)BIES

B(oYo)BIES — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:49:32 -0800

Lifehacker has an article on Produkey.

"ProduKey also supports SQL Server and displays the product ID for each installation."

By: yggdrasil

yggdrasil — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:53:46 -0800

Belarc Advisor lists the keys out as part of its report, too. It's pretty handy.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:46:52 -0800

Magical Jellybean Keyfinder

By: ijoyner

ijoyner — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:51:13 -0800

System Information Tool at http://www.gtopala.com/

By: Artful Codger

Artful Codger — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:11:34 -0800

second recommendation for Belarc Advisor.

By: exhilaration

exhilaration — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 13:37:10 -0800

SIW exported my Office keys. Bonus: it also exports your saved IE and Firefox passwords as a plain text file.