I have windows server 2012 r2 standard evaluation installed.
Windows server 2012 r2 standard evaluation product key activation.
Change set edition serverstandardeval to set.
If you license is genuine and your server is connected to the internet you should be able to validate your license.
You can rearm windows server 2012 r2 evaluation up to 5 times.
During the installation no process asked us to enter the product key and we installed it successfully.
Then reboot your server.
This key can t be used to activate this copy of windows please use another key running slmgr.
Run command prompt with administrator privileges and run following command.
If you install windows server 2012 evaluation edition and later purchase a license the activation process is a little more confusing than you would immediately think.
Just as cguan said it is free for us to download and install it and it don t need any product key to make it functional.
Press y to reboot.
It s a little more work than simply typing in a new product key.
In this way you can activate windows server evaluation edition to full retail edition.
Extend windows server 2012 r2 evaluation.
The edition will change from windows server 2012 r2 standard evaluation to windows server 2012 r2 standard.
Windows server products resources.
The microsoft evaluation center brings you full featured microsoft product evaluation software available for download or trial on microsoft azure.
I am using a windows server 2012 r2 standard key into the evaluation but it says the key is not suited for that copy of windows.
As you can see below it this command will upgrade the edition of server to full version.
I m trying to activate a customers 2012 r2 standard server to a full copy.
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You can now view the new server edition by going into server manager.
First you must convert to a full retail version.
Skip to main content.
Windows will reconfigure itself.
We installed the windows server 2012 r2 from the link you provided in a hyper v computer.
I have an oem license key for a 2012 r2 standard but when trying to change product key via system i receive the error.