{"id":179,"date":"2013-01-11T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T08:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.successionua.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2013-01-11T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T08:44:00","slug":"how-to-conver-windows-server-2012-evaluation-editions-to-full-retail-versions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"How to conver Windows Server 2012 Evaluation editions to full retail versions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">If you installed an evaluation edition of Windows Server 2012 which is free for 180 days and than buy a full version, you must convert Windows edition&#8217;s type.<\/p>\n<p>If the server is a domain controller, you cannot convert it to a retail version. In this case, install an additional domain controller on a server that runs a retail version and remove AD DS from the domain controller that runs on the evaluation version. For more information, see <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/hh994618.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/hh994618.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To convert edition do next steps:<\/p>\n<p>1. First, check version. From an elevated command prompt, run<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #e69138;\">slmgr.vbs \/dlv<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>evaluation versions will include \u201cEVAL\u201d in the output.<\/p>\n<p>2. To see editions available for us to convert, type<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #e69138;\">DISM \/Online \/Get-TargetEditions<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>You will get a list of edition IDs which we will use later.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HUHyGsGXw8M\/UO_6pshoUiI\/AAAAAAAABK0\/ZpxDhtdXpTA\/s1600\/scr.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-HUHyGsGXw8M\/UO_6pshoUiI\/AAAAAAAABK0\/ZpxDhtdXpTA\/s640\/scr.png\" height=\"153\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>3. Convertation itself. Run from elevated cmd:<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #e69138;\">DISM \/online \/Set-Edition:&lt;edition ID&gt; \/ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX \/AcceptEula<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>providing the edition ID one from the list we got above and a your retail product key. The server will offer to restart (twice) and all will be done.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p><\/div>\n<div>http:\/\/geckich.blogspot.com\/<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you installed an evaluation edition of Windows Server 2012 which is free for 180 days and than buy a full version, you must convert Windows edition&#8217;s type. If the server is a domain controller, you cannot convert it to a retail version. In this case, install an additional domain controller on a server that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geckich.space\/?p=179\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to conver Windows Server 2012 Evaluation editions to full retail versions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}