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After the expiration of the trial period, Windows Server starts requiring activation and shutting down every hour with the following events in the Event Viewer:.
 
 

 

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But received: Error The specified product key could not be validated. Check that the specified product key is valid and that it matches the target edition. If yes what steps should I follow? Attachments: Up to 10 attachments including images can be used with a maximum of 3. To activate your Windows Server: 1. Enter key via GUI or run the command: slmgr. To get the available editions: 1.

Open an elevated command prompt. Run the following command: DISM. To set your Windows Server to a higher edition: 1. Hi, one question, So If i want to change server version from standard evaluation to standard, I have to use retail license key? Retail License Key will work with It. Thank you team its worked and saved lots of hours for the installation and creation of new server. Just to check if the above reply could be of help, if yes, you may mark useful reply as answer, if not, welcome to feedback.

Is any method available to activate the sql server also, because we are using sql server as evalution on windows server evaluation? And we bought the license but its VLSC. Windows server RAID 1 array migrated windows Windows R2 to Windows upgrade access issue. Skip to main content. Find threads, tags, and users Current Visibility: Visible to all users. Best regards, Leon. Just overcame this issue.

Open an elevated command prompt, and type or copy DISM. Thank you for this, worked perfectly saving me the hassle of recreating this VM!! Screen shot of activation after converting from retail install. Thank you! This worked perfectly and saved me a ton of extra work. This worked for me thanks! Best regards, Sylvia. Hi team, Is any method available to activate the sql server also, because we are using sql server as evalution on windows server evaluation?

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If you are trying to evaluate Windows Server R2 then you will need to activate the software once you have completed the installation. We have seen a number of people struggling with this and trying to enter a key to active it.

The fact is, you do not require an evaluation key for using Windows Server R2. Once you have installed the evaluation copy you may see that it is not activated and when you try and activate, it will ask for a product key. If you get this instead of it automatically activating for you, then all you need to do is to run the following command from an elevated command prompt:. This should then automatically rearm your trial for days. Two pre-release versions, a developer preview and a beta version, were released during development.

The software was generally available to customers starting on , by Microsoft. A successor was released on , entitled Windows Server R2. Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows Server on , and extended support will end on This will show you a Window with full details on your version, build and activation information.

The most important line is this:. This lets you know you are running an evaluation version, which can be converted to Standard or Datacenter editions abbreviated as ServerStandard and ServerDatacenter, respectively. To convert your version to retail and activate it in one go, run the following command from command prompt or PowerShell with elevated Administrator privileges:.

When you try to upgrade Windows Server Evaluation version to a licensed full version using a MAK volume license key you may receive below error message. Error The specified product key could not be validated.