Upgrade 2012R2 servers

[CAWJames]

Morning all,

 

Is it possible to upgrade an existing 2012R2 installation(test VM, not production)with the evaluation ISO?

 

I have tried and it tells me its the wrong edition, so won't do an in-place upgrade Do I have to wait till the proper release ISO?

 

Thanks

 

James

[datar_]

From what I can read, it looks like you can inplace upgrade and later change your edition of Windows by doing an DISM /ONLINE and changing the edition of Window Server 2016 from Standard EVAL to just Standard.

 

Yet to actually test this but the TechNet Article looks promising for doing this to Windows 8/10 etc...

 

Running the same command would change it from Eval to Standard - after a few reboots that is

dism /online /set-edition:ServerStandard /productkey:AAAAA-BBBBB-CCCCC-DDDDD-EEEEE /accepteula

 

If it doesn't do that, you could alter the ISO using DISM to install Standard and not StandardEval