Originally Posted by
CWH
Don't forget though, that TechNet and MSDN software is for 'testing & evaluation' purposes only.
After a discussion with M/S Staff in Redmond while at a Summit a couple of years ago, we were told that they randomly do an audit of the software downloaded against the details of the downloader and while they said (at that time), no-one had been prosecuted for misuse, there had been a number of cases where subscriptions and M/S dealings had been terminated.
Personally, all my Clients either have a set of recovery discs, installation media, or a disk image as part of our dealings with them, even if we have to do it. In fact, we actually store quite a few of them, (with copies of their COA's), on behalf of the Clients along with their data copies.
Colin