The microsoft evaluation center brings you full featured microsoft product evaluation software available for download or trial on microsoft azure.
Windows server 2012 r2 standard evaluation product key activation.
X is your product key.
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.
Run command prompt with administrator privileges and run following command.
You can rearm windows server 2012 r2 evaluation up to 5 times.
The edition will change from windows server 2012 r2 standard evaluation to windows server 2012 r2 standard.
You can now view the new server edition by going into server manager.
During the installation no process asked us to enter the product key and we installed it successfully.
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.
This key can t be used to activate this copy of windows please use another key running slmgr.
Press y to reboot.
Extend windows server 2012 r2 evaluation.
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Windows server 2012 r2 evaluation is valid for 180 days.
Following command will rearm your trial windows server 2012 r2.
Change set edition serverstandardeval to set.
Then reboot your server.
If you license is genuine and your server is connected to the internet you should be able to validate your license.
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It s a little more work than simply typing in a new product key.
Windows will reconfigure itself.
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.
First you must convert to a full retail version.
I have windows server 2012 r2 standard evaluation installed.
Windows server products resources.
In this way you can activate windows server evaluation edition to full retail edition.