Normally I would just install the Windows server without a license. Normally we obtain our server licenses/activation from the company KMS system and we need to do that in this case as well. This quick tip will save you time if your test evaluation server becomes a critical piece of lab and needs to be converted.I'm tasked with setting up a Windows 2019 AD environment (new domain) from scratch. The fix is a single powershell command, provided below:ĭISM /Online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /ProductKey:N69G4-B89J2-4G8F4-WWYCC-J464C /AcceptEula Details are provided by Damitha Anuradha here KMS license keys are freely avalable at the following Microsoft documentation linkĪs we mentioned earlier, there will be an error 1168 provided when you attempt to change to the KMS key.
The issue we saw was that Windows 2019 evaluation wouldn’t accept a KMS license key. It helps an environment scale and can be added into a VMware VM customization file to allow new Windows VMs to automatically look for the KMS server. Microsoft Key Management Service provides centralized licensing management for Windows licensing. We won’t provide the actual licensing required on the server side. Note You will need a KMS server in your environment and a legit KMS license installed on that server for this to work. We researched the problem and found a solution to convert a server created with an evaluation ISO to a KMS licensed lab VM. In a recent lab environment we used the Windows Server 2019 evaluation without understanding the difficulty in converting it to NFR once we received those licenses. It isn’t an easy feat to convert these into KMS servers.
These are intended to allow users to deploy a temporary server for testing or checking out new features. Microsoft provides evaluation version of Windows Server 2019 on their website.
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