Because Windows Server Evaluation can’t change the product key. So if you download Windows Server from Microsoft, you need to upgrade it to full version to use our key.
You can download Windows Server Evaluation from Microsoft here:
- Download Windows Server 2022 Standard Evaluation English version
- Download Windows Server 2022 Standard Evaluation French version
- Download Windows Server 2022 Standard Evaluation German version
- Download Windows Server 2022 Standard Evaluation Italian version
- Download Windows Server 2022 Standard Evaluation Spanish version
This Windows Server 2022 Evaluation iso file includes Windows Server 2022 Standard Evaluation and Windows Server 2022 Datacenter- Evaluation
After you install Windows Server 2022 Standard Evaluation, you have 180 days to use it. Windows Server 2022 Evaluation can’t change product key, so you need to upgrade Windows Server 2022 Evaluation to full version
How to convert Windows Server 2022 Evaluation to FULL edition
Note: if you see “upgrade failed”, you restart your Windows Server 2022. It will upgrade Windows Server 2022 Evaluation to full version
Step 1: You open cmd (run as administrator), then you copy and paste this code
dism /online /get-targeteditions
Step 2: You copy and paste this code in cmd to upgrade Windows Server 2022 Evaluation to Standard:
dism /online /set-edition:serverstandard /productkey:VDYBN-27WPP-V4HQT-9VMD4-VMK7H /accepteula
If you want to upgrade Windows Server 2022 Evaluation to Datacenter you you copy and paste this code:
dism /online /set-edition:serverdatacenter /productkey:WX4NM-KYWYW-QJJR4-XV3QB-6VM33 /accepteula
After you upgrade Windows Server 2022 Evaluation to Standard or datacenter version, you need to put our product key to activate it.
