Deployment of Windows 8.1 Pro while maintaining OEM Licence

Hi All
I was wondering if someone could help me.
The company I work for will be purchasing 50 new laptops for our sales team. These laptops will come with windows 8.1 Pro OEM installed.
My question is; can I re-deploy a Windows 8.1 image containing my companies bespoke software whilst retaining the OEM licences? If so, how would I go about this?
I have setup a WDS server and already have an image with the software on that does work when I boot to the server, but obviously I need to register windows. But the licence key is unattainable.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Cx~

Hi Cx,
We can deploy our laptop by customize a Windows 8.1 image.
Regarding the activation,it doesn't like windows 7 OEM .
If you use a OEM image,we can activate your system using OEM license.
But if you use Windows 8.1 Pro without OEM version,I think we should purchase Volume license key to activate your system.
Regards,

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