PartnerId specifies the identity of participants in the Microsoft® Operations Services IT (OSIT) Sell Keys Partner Portal System. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) specify a partner ID for all of the computers that they manufacture and enable for the Windows® Anytime Upgrade program.

Important
This setting has been removed in Windows® 8. This setting was deprecated in Windows® 7.This information is for reference only.

When a user enters the partner ID on a computer that is enabled for Windows Anytime Upgrade, a Microsoft redirection service uses the partner ID to:

Note
Merchants that are not OEMs can negotiate with system builders and OEMs to have their partner IDs installed on computers.

Merchants that have a technical services department in their retail store can replace the OEM's partner ID with their own partner ID if the user has explicitly authorized the merchant to install hardware or software or to perform a Windows Anytime Upgrade or Full Packaged Products (FPP) upgrade.

Values

PartnerID

Specifies the identity of participants in the Microsoft Operations Services IT (OSIT) Sell Keys Partner Portal System. PartnerID is a string. The default value is null.

This string type supports empty elements.

Valid Configuration Passes

auditSystem

oobeSystem

specialize

Parent Hierarchy

Applies To

For a list of the Windows editions and architectures that this component supports, see Microsoft-Windows-Security-Licensing-SLCC

XML Example

The following example shows how to set the Windows Anytime Upgrade program.

  Copy Code
<ReferralId>123456</ReferralId>
<PartnerId>MyPartner</PartnerId>
<WAUSetupLocation>MyLocation</WAUSetupLocation>

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