Dear visitors, to contact the store administration, you can use the contact form in the lower right corner of the window. And also, if you have purchased your product and activated the key, please leave a comment, it helps the development of the store. Thank you for using our services! The discount is calculated by your e-mail address, you can make purchases with different wallets, but use one e-mail address, and then the discount will always be with you!

Giving you full control over all aspects of your server infrastructure, Windows Admin Center is particularly useful for managing servers on private networks that are not connected to the Internet.

Get started with Windows Admin Center. Windows Server Get started for free. Supporting products. Get started for free Get started for free. Choose an edition and an installation option: Customers who download the full ISO will need to choose an edition and an installation option. Installation Options: Server Core: This is the recommended installation option. Server with Desktop Experience: This is the complete installation and includes a full graphical user interface GUI for customers who prefer this option.

Review Windows Server release notes and system requirements. Register, then download and install. Microsoft has left out the free Hyper-V version, which was part of its offering with Windows Server We have a detailed guide about Windows Server here.

You can learn everything in the post, including the license, pricing, new features and download links. Please note that this is an evaluation version and will expire in days. The download page mentions that the user must activate the evaluation version over the Internet within 10 days of installation to avoid hourly automatic restarts. Microsoft has not provided any product keys for Windows Server yet.

That means you will be able to register the evaluation version over the Internet and use it for 6 months. After days, you will need to change your product key to the one which has been purchased from Microsoft. You can learn more about Windows Server here. Your download will now begin with the preferences you have chosen. If you have downloaded an ISO image, you can use Ventoy to deploy it or install it directly from the hard drive. Windows Server was released in and came with support for containers, Nano Server and Network Controller.

Extended support will end in January You can also download the VHD version on the same page, or also try the Operating System on Azure without installing anything on your system.

Windows Server R2 was released in and came with the support for PowerShell and improved storage management. It came with the following editions:.

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The operating system is shutting down. The operating system will shut down every hour. This article should help you if you performing productive tasks in the evaluation version of Windows Server and want to upgrade it to full Windows Server edition while keeping your data and without the need to completely reinstall the operating system.

When you try to install the retail key using the slmgr. Error: 0xCF Open an elevated command prompt and execute the command:. Here are some upgrade restrictions that you need to know before converting Windows Server Evaluation to the full edition:. The conversion is performed via the command prompt using the built-in DISM tool. For example, to upgrade your Eval edition to the Retail version of Windows Server Standard, use the command:.

You will later replace it with your own product key. After you run this command, wait for the message Command completed successfully in some cases it may take several hours!!! After that restart your server and make sure you have a full Standard edition installed. The command will look like this:. You can upgrade Windows Server edition the same way. Confirm the command, restart the server.

After rebooting, make sure your Windows Server Eval edition is converted to full retail. Maybe this will be fixed in the next Windows Server build …. Also, thank you. It appears to have worked for me virtual machine for eductional purposes. Would you expect the same procedure to work for Server ?

Only after that you must reboot the server. Thanks for your comment. I updated the description in the article. Thank you very much, this saved a lot of work after a project was fully implemented over an evaluation version by a contractee and I got the job to activate it; somehow, this time, the Microsoft phone support was not able to find anyone who knew this solution, at least in time, and your article worked quite well.

I installed the datacenter core eval version Starting with version Thanks for the useful tips. Thanks very much for a very useful artical — just one thing I wanted to comment on — You mention above that a Windows domain contoller must be demoted first. Same panick here at first. Windows Server Get started for free.

Supporting products. Get started for free Get started for free. Choose an edition and an installation option: Customers who download the full ISO will need to choose an edition and an installation option. Installation Options: Server Core: This is the recommended installation option. Server with Desktop Experience: This is the complete installation and includes a full graphical user interface GUI for customers who prefer this option. Review Windows Server release notes and system requirements.

Register, then download and install. Windows Server evaluation editions expire in days. Receive email with resources to guide you through your evaluation. Confirm the command, restart the server. After rebooting, make sure your Windows Server Eval edition is converted to full retail.

Maybe this will be fixed in the next Windows Server build …. Also, thank you. It appears to have worked for me virtual machine for eductional purposes. Would you expect the same procedure to work for Server ? Only after that you must reboot the server. Thanks for your comment. I updated the description in the article. Thank you very much, this saved a lot of work after a project was fully implemented over an evaluation version by a contractee and I got the job to activate it; somehow, this time, the Microsoft phone support was not able to find anyone who knew this solution, at least in time, and your article worked quite well.

I installed the datacenter core eval version Starting with version Thanks for the useful tips. Thanks very much for a very useful artical — just one thing I wanted to comment on — You mention above that a Windows domain contoller must be demoted first.

Same panick here at first. That is not supported! From elevated cmd prompt the installation of productkey was less then one hour. At first reboot of Domain Controller, the DC was incorrectly connected to private network instead of domain network.

After gpupdate and a few 2x restarts everything seems fine again. Checked Winver. Many thanks for a very useful article. I was about to reinstall but your article saved me from all the wasted time that would have involved.

Thanks for this topic. I successfully applied this guide to an AD DS on Windows server without having the necessity to uninstall the role and demote the DC.

No differences between a server with AD or not. It was a great joy for me! What about Domain controller? After reboot, install the ADDS role and promote server to a domain controller.