Re: Upgrading from 180 day evaluation to standard



Hi John,

My guess is that you have Evaluation version of Enterprise Edition of
Windows 2003. In this case upgrade is not possible and you will have to do a
reinstall...

Is this server a domain controller?
Is 180 day already up?

--
Mike
Microsoft MVP - Windows Security

"John Burgess" <John Burgess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:18032DF4-B873-4EDB-A887-142EA5697573@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I've got a machine which I upgarded to win2003 using the evaluation CD.
> After a while it became clear there weren't going to be any problems with
> win2003 so we've added more machines and I have now brought a cpy of
> standard
> edition for the machine that had the evaluation on it.
>
> However, when I try to install it says "This version of windows cannot be
> upgraded. The option upgrade will not be available."
>
> What can I do? Is there any way to just stick my new product key into
> this
> one and re- register it?
>


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