The Asset Intelligence code in SMS 2003 parses the DigitalProductId registry entry in the Windows registry to extract the sales channel information by using a predefined offset. For example, the sales channel information may indicate whether a software product was sold by using the retail channel or by using an OEM channel. The Asset Intelligence reports use version 3 and version 4 of the DigitalProductId registry entry to extract license channel information from installed software products. However, in some cases, the Asset Intelligence reports may report the license channel information incorrectly for certain installed software products. Whether this issue occurs depends on how the products store product ID information in the registry. For example, an enterprise product that is a select Volume License Key version may be reported as a retail version product in the Asset Intelligence reports. This issue generally occurs when you use software products that use the ProductID registry entry instead of the DigitalProductId registry entry to store product ID information.
The names of the Asset Intelligence reports that provide the license and sales origin channel information are as follows:
- License 1A - Microsoft License Ledger for Microsoft License Statements
- License 1B - Microsoft License Ledger Item by Sales Channel
- License 1C - Computers with a Specific Microsoft License Ledger Item and Sales Channel
- License 1D - Microsoft License Ledger Products on a Specific Computer
The DigitalProductId registry entry for an installed software product is located in the system registry hive under the Registration subkey for the product. The DigitalProductId registry entry for an operating system is located in the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
The DigitalProductId registry entry contains the encoded REG_BINARY value of the product key that was used to enable the software product. The entry contains the following information:
Name: DigitalProductId
Type: REG_BINARY
Data: data
How to manually extract the product ID of an installed software product
Warning Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require that you reinstall the operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that these problems can be solved. Modify the registry at your own risk.
To manually obtain the channel information for an installed software product that uses an earlier version of the DigitalProductId registry entry, you have to first extract the product ID information from the ProductID registry entry. After you extract the product ID information, note the channel ID value in the product ID information, and then use the table that is provided in this article to find a matching channel description for that channel ID value.
To manually extract the product ID of an installed software product, follow these steps:
- Start Registry Editor.
- Expand the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft
- Locate and then expand the subkey for the product for which you want to extract the product ID information.
- Locate and then click the Registration subkey.
- Double-click ProductID.
- Note the value in the Value data box, and then click OK. For example, the product ID information will be displayed as 73931-640-2474146-57484.
- Note the second set of numbers in the product ID. This number represents the channel ID value for that product. For example, if the product ID is 73931-640-2474146-57484, the channel ID value is 640.
- Use the following table to find a matching channel description.
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| Values | Description |
| 725 | Academic |
| 726 - 736 | Academic |
| 471 - 499 | Home Use Program (HUP) |
| 721 - 724 | Home Use Program (HUP) |
| 197 | MSDN |
| 198 | MSDN |
| 335 - 338 | MSDN |
| 365 - 367 | MSDN |
| 640 - 650 | OPEN [Volume License Key] |
| 550 | OEM |
| 630 - 636 | OEM |
| 706 - 712 | Office XP or Open License |
| 652 | SELECT [Volume License Key] |
| 660 | SELECT [Volume License Key] |
| 111 | SELECT (Network installation) [Volume License Key] |
| 270 | SELECT [Volume License Key] |
| 000 | TRIAL |
| 436 | TRIAL |
| 460 | TRIAL |
| 700 - 705 | Visual Studio .NET |