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“ DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerEnterprise /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX”
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Once the command is done running you will need to restart your computer, if you are ready just type “Y”. You need to have a key for Enterprise edition and fill in the XXXX with that information. In my case I am going to be upgrading too Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition, and the following command will do this.
#Windows server 2008 product key enterprise upgrade#
Enter in the following command to upgrade your version of Windows Server.Enter the following command to see which version you can in place upgrade too “ DISM /online /Get-TargetEditions” You can see from the output of the command window, Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard can be upgraded to Enterprise and DataCenter.Enter is this command in the window to find the version you are running, just to confirm.Click on the “Start Button” Type Power, PowerShell will then show under programs, Right Click the PowerShell Icon and select “Run as administrator.First of all go ahead and on the server you want to run this command open up PowerShell as an administrator.You can find out more about the Tool HERE The command that we are going to use is the DISM.exe command (Deployment Image Servicing and Management Tool), that is available in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. So I went looking around and found a very nice way to in place upgrade to Enterprise Edition. So long story short, I didn’t want to have to fully rebuild my Lab VM’s. Now the issue is that I need Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition to support the Windows Failover Clustering feature. Hit a little issue in my lab today, It happens that I went ahead and installed Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard for a bunch of my Lab VM’s.