{"id":2649,"date":"2014-10-17T16:09:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T20:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2017-07-18T10:40:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T14:40:55","slug":"how-to-convert-an-evaluation-copy-of-microsoft-server-2012-r2-to-work-under-datacenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/2014\/10\/how-to-convert-an-evaluation-copy-of-microsoft-server-2012-r2-to-work-under-datacenter\/","title":{"rendered":"How to convert an evaluation copy of Microsoft Server 2012 R2 to work under Datacenter"},"content":{"rendered":"

First you have to convert it to Retail using the following command: \u00a0(all from an elevated Command prompt , \u00a0right click on command prompt and select Run as Administrator<\/p>\n

Set the edition by figuring out which editions it can be converted to using the following command:<\/p>\n

dism \/online \/<\/code>get-targeteditions<\/code><\/p>\n

So in this case you would put the edition you want it to be set: in the following exmaple it’s \u00a0ServerStandard and select the appropriate key from this link:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/jj612867.aspx<\/p>\n

DISM \/online \/Set-Edition:ServerStandard \/ProductKey:***KEY*** \/AcceptEula<\/p>\n

One note, if this is a working server, \u00a0this processes will take a good 5 minutes…<\/p>\n

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Next you need to have Datacenter take control of the licensing by issuing the following command and change the Key to the appropriate one from this site:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dn303421.aspx<\/p>\n

slmgr \/ipk \u00a0***KEY***<\/p>\n

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If you mess something up or this does not work for you… not my fault. \u00a0I take no responsibility, i’m just sharing my experience.<\/p>\n

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If this helped you, consider buying me coffee!<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0Thanks!<\/p>\n

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First you have to convert it to Retail using the following command: \u00a0(all from an elevated Command prompt , \u00a0right click on command prompt and select Run as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","_seo_fixer_meta_description":"","_seo_fixer_focus_keyword":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[148,150,152,149,151,147],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-148","tag-convert","tag-datacenter","tag-evaluation","tag-r2","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}