I received an unusual phone call from a co-worker today: he wanted to find out the product key of BizTalk Server 2006 installed on a server (I didn’t go as far as asking why – lost disk probably).
After a few minutes this is where I got to: open regedit and browse to:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\BizTalk Server\3.0\Registration\DigitalProductID
Now download something like the KeyViewer tool from the bottom of the page here: http://www.ac2tech.com/tools/keyviewer/keyviewer.php
Follow the “How to get the raw key from “DigitalProductID” instructions at the bottom of the page (offset the DigitalProductID value by 15, and copy a length of 34) then type it into the “Raw Key” tab of the KeyViewer tool. It might pay to click the “Decode” button once before typing in the info from the registry so that it puts its default bogus product key there. This way you’ll know that your BizTalk one is correct and no the bogus one for when the raw key entered is invalid (it doesn’t throw an error message).
This should work for other BizTalk versions as well. Hope it helps someone!
