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XP Product Codes

Here's a list of Product Codes. This is the first number of the Product ID. 55274 : XP Pro generic OEM or Volume License (VL is a special case of OEM) 55276 : XP Pro (upgrade)  55276 : XP Home (?) '   55277 : XP Home generic OEM  55285 : XP Pro '   55661 : XP Pro (retail)  76475 : XP Home (upgrade) (?) 76477 : XP Home Royalty OEM 76487 : XP Media Center Edition 2005  76487 : XP Pro Royalty OEM 76487 : XP Pro volume license (with '640' channel ID)  76500 : XP MCE 2005 (XP Pro with AD/GPO disabled)  76588 : XP Pro x64 OEM  The second number is Channel ID 000 : Other (includes some retail, upgrade and evaluation versions)  007 : Retail 009 : Not for resale - bundle  011 : XP Home Upgrade OEM : OEM (This does not specify royalty or normal OEM)  270 : Volume License  296 : MSDN  308/347 : Microsoft Action Pack subscription  335 : Retail  640 through 648, 652 : Volume License (usually generated via 270 CID in setupp.ini)  699 : Volume Windows XP Tablet Edition  071 : Pos

When updating group policy, user update ok, but machine policy failed.

When running gpupdate, I received this error User Policy update has completed successfully.  Computer policy could not be updated successfully.  The following errors were encountered: The processing of Group Policy failed.  Windows could not authenticate to the Active Directory service on a domain controller. (LDAP Bind function call failed). Look in the details tab for error code and description. Turns out, I had an old hosts entry.  Removing the host entry fixed the problem.