Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media
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@thwr said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@Dashrender said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
The only digital downloads I aware of are the VLSC licenses.
Otherwise the trial download might let you enter a real key and activate. I'm pretty sure it will. You would want to stand up a trial and then be force to scrap it if you decides to keep it, bit I suppose stranger things have happened.
Eval can be activated, even with MAK keys (and at any time you wish)
Eval can be converted to accept VL keys. It will not activate on one natively.
Edit: I thought I posted here when I did it, but i cannot find it
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@JaredBusch said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@thwr said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@Dashrender said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
The only digital downloads I aware of are the VLSC licenses.
Otherwise the trial download might let you enter a real key and activate. I'm pretty sure it will. You would want to stand up a trial and then be force to scrap it if you decides to keep it, bit I suppose stranger things have happened.
Eval can be activated, even with MAK keys (and at any time you wish)
Eval can be converted to accept VL keys. It will not activate on one natively.
Edit: I thought I posted here when I did it, but i cannot find it
Maybe I'm missing something, but I had no issues using VL keys on "vanilla" eval installations since Win7/2008R2.
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@thwr said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@JaredBusch said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@thwr said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@Dashrender said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
The only digital downloads I aware of are the VLSC licenses.
Otherwise the trial download might let you enter a real key and activate. I'm pretty sure it will. You would want to stand up a trial and then be force to scrap it if you decides to keep it, bit I suppose stranger things have happened.
Eval can be activated, even with MAK keys (and at any time you wish)
Eval can be converted to accept VL keys. It will not activate on one natively.
Edit: I thought I posted here when I did it, but i cannot find it
Maybe I'm missing something, but I had no issues using VL keys on "vanilla" eval installations since Win7/2008R2.
The GUI won't accept the key. You have to use DISM to set the product edition since eval is not a regular one. And the you can use DISM to activate the key.
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@Jason said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@thwr said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@JaredBusch said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@thwr said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@Dashrender said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
The only digital downloads I aware of are the VLSC licenses.
Otherwise the trial download might let you enter a real key and activate. I'm pretty sure it will. You would want to stand up a trial and then be force to scrap it if you decides to keep it, bit I suppose stranger things have happened.
Eval can be activated, even with MAK keys (and at any time you wish)
Eval can be converted to accept VL keys. It will not activate on one natively.
Edit: I thought I posted here when I did it, but i cannot find it
Maybe I'm missing something, but I had no issues using VL keys on "vanilla" eval installations since Win7/2008R2.
The GUI won't accept the key. You have to use DISM to set the product edition since eval is not a regular one. And the you can use DISM to activate the key.
Yeah, sorry, thought this is obvious. So yes, you are right, the edition is more or less "eval" instead of standard, enterprise or datacenter and dism can fix that.
But the basic question was: Can you activate an eval, and the simple answer is yes.
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I didn't know this, does that make it obvious or not, who knows..... but again, I didn't know you could use DISM to change that.
Although, if you have a legal MAK/KMS key, why are you using an eval? You should have access to VLSC and just download the ISO you need.
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@Dashrender said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
I didn't know this, does that make it obvious or not, who knows..... but again, I didn't know you could use DISM to change that.
Although, if you have a legal MAK/KMS key, why are you using an eval? You should have access to VLSC and just download the ISO you need.
Only a single guy in our campus datacenter is allowed to access MSVLSC and it's often way easier to use evals.
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@thwr said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@Dashrender said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
I didn't know this, does that make it obvious or not, who knows..... but again, I didn't know you could use DISM to change that.
Although, if you have a legal MAK/KMS key, why are you using an eval? You should have access to VLSC and just download the ISO you need.
Only a single guy in our campus datacenter is allowed to access MSVLSC and it's often way easier to use evals.
seems crappy that that guy doesn't download the ISOs and put them somewhere everyone can use them.
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@Dashrender said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@thwr said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@Dashrender said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
I didn't know this, does that make it obvious or not, who knows..... but again, I didn't know you could use DISM to change that.
Although, if you have a legal MAK/KMS key, why are you using an eval? You should have access to VLSC and just download the ISO you need.
Only a single guy in our campus datacenter is allowed to access MSVLSC and it's often way easier to use evals.
seems crappy that that guy doesn't download the ISOs and put them somewhere everyone can use them.
Don't get me wrong, he will download whatever I need - when there is some spare time. Using evals is just simpler in most cases, for both of us.
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@thwr said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@Dashrender said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@thwr said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@Dashrender said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
I didn't know this, does that make it obvious or not, who knows..... but again, I didn't know you could use DISM to change that.
Although, if you have a legal MAK/KMS key, why are you using an eval? You should have access to VLSC and just download the ISO you need.
Only a single guy in our campus datacenter is allowed to access MSVLSC and it's often way easier to use evals.
seems crappy that that guy doesn't download the ISOs and put them somewhere everyone can use them.
Don't get me wrong, he will download whatever I need - when there is some spare time. Using evals is just simpler in most cases, for both of us.
Backwards.
How long does it take every time a new software is purchased to click download while also going in to get the key?
Once it is all downloaded and put on central storage, it is never accessed again.
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@JaredBusch said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@thwr said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@Dashrender said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@thwr said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@Dashrender said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
I didn't know this, does that make it obvious or not, who knows..... but again, I didn't know you could use DISM to change that.
Although, if you have a legal MAK/KMS key, why are you using an eval? You should have access to VLSC and just download the ISO you need.
Only a single guy in our campus datacenter is allowed to access MSVLSC and it's often way easier to use evals.
seems crappy that that guy doesn't download the ISOs and put them somewhere everyone can use them.
Don't get me wrong, he will download whatever I need - when there is some spare time. Using evals is just simpler in most cases, for both of us.
Backwards.
How long does it take every time a new software is purchased to click download while also going in to get the key?
Once it is all downloaded and put on central storage, it is never accessed again.
Opposed to you apparently downloading new eval copies all the timeWell, totally agree. There are quite some processes which don't work very well IMHO. On the other hand, I'm more or less in a special position here. I'm the only one who is running things like SharePoint, MS System Center, Exchange and SQL Server.
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If you haven't gotten a copy lined up yet, let me know. I have a copy that contains gui and command line, standard & datacenter. I can drop it on a USB drive and mail it to you.
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@Tracy_Burton Thank you for the offer at the moment Rojo is working on setting a file transfer for me as well.
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Eh... so the Server we're running is not R2 (that teaches me to listen to anyone when I can just look it up myself..) it's Server 2012 Standard.
I got the eval from Microsoft's site, and there are instructions to activate it as a full license, but they don't seem to like the product key. That or I'm misunderstanding the instructions.
Fun times.....
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@DustinB3403 said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
Eh... so the Server we're running is not R2 (that teaches me to listen to anyone when I can just look it up myself..) it's Server 2012 Standard.
I got the eval from Microsoft's site, and there are instructions to activate it as a full license, but they don't seem to like the product key. That or I'm misunderstanding the instructions.
Fun times.....
dism /AcceptEula /Online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
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@thwr said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@DustinB3403 said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
Eh... so the Server we're running is not R2 (that teaches me to listen to anyone when I can just look it up myself..) it's Server 2012 Standard.
I got the eval from Microsoft's site, and there are instructions to activate it as a full license, but they don't seem to like the product key. That or I'm misunderstanding the instructions.
Fun times.....
DISM /AcceptEula /Online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
Oh I know, I've confirmed it ~10ish times.
I'm digging through some more data to see what the issue might be.
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@DustinB3403 said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@thwr said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
@DustinB3403 said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
Eh... so the Server we're running is not R2 (that teaches me to listen to anyone when I can just look it up myself..) it's Server 2012 Standard.
I got the eval from Microsoft's site, and there are instructions to activate it as a full license, but they don't seem to like the product key. That or I'm misunderstanding the instructions.
Fun times.....
DISM /AcceptEula /Online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
Oh I know, I've confirmed it ~10ish times.
I'm digging through some more data to see what the issue might be.
Odd... it's set-edition 99% of the time. What is /get-edition telling you?
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It's giving me the ServerStandardEvaluation and when I ask it to show me the upgrade options is says I can go to ServerStandard or Datacenter.
I might have just got it working though, going to confirm.
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Do the convertion using /set-edition by itself then do the DISM command again with the /productkey
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@Dashrender said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
Do the convertion using /set-edition by itself then do the DISM command again with the /productkey
^^^ This is how I've always had the best success with DISM. Set the edition, then add the product key.
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@Dashrender said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:
Do the convertion using /set-edition by itself then do the DISM command again with the /productkey
I'll give that a try in just a moment.
Thanks for the tip.
