I haven't heard of a *proper* way to turn a trial or beta into production without the inplace or forklift upgrade ... With all due respect, I would never put a trial version into critical production based on the license timeout issue
Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security _____ From: Keith Turgeon [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 3:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows 2008 Trial License to Volume License Hello, I am looking at an issue, and would like a little extra clarification. We have a couple of servers that have been installed using the Windows 2008 trial copy that is available for download from Microsoft. This enabled the company to get the servers up and running as they would like. Now they have gone ahead and purchase volume licenses (eOpen), and would like to apply these licenses to these servers. When we try to add the license key to the servers, it ends up failing as an invalid key. After speaking with the rep from CDW, they stated, that since it was a trial media and not volume media, we will need to do a in place "upgrade" to get the licenses in place and activated. Now these servers are the production BES and Transport exchange servers, so I'm a little leery about doing this "upgrade". Anyone know of a better way to get the license key updated, or what are the thoughts on doing this in place upgrade? Any thoughts are much appreciated. Thanks, Keith ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
