2008 R2 Enterprise Evaluation Edition upgrade to Full License Standard

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2008 R2 Enterprise Evaluation Edition upgrade to Full License Standard

Marek Grzymala

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June 10, 2010 at 8:59 am

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Has anybody done a successful upgrade from 180-day 2008 R2 Enterprise Evaluation Edition to a Fully Licensed 2008 R2 Standard Edition?
Acording to microsoft's site it is possible: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143393.aspx
but I want to make sure.
My company won't spend on Enterprise but if I can show them a performance difference on new hardware they will buy Standard. I do not want to have to tear down all my evaluation instances and have to rebuild them all over.

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Marek Grzymala SSCommitted Points: 1946 More actions · Answer 1

I'll answer my own question: Yes you can do it but if you buy a MOLP version instead of retail and if the language of your OS is not the same as the language of the SQL get ready for some fun like: “setup media does not support the language of the OS or does not have ENU localized files” and then failed “Performance counter registry hive consistency”

Workaround is to export HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Perflib\009 edit it and on the line with path change Perflib\009 to Perflib\015 save and then merge.

Don’t even waste your time with http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300956

Of course in the evaluation version you don’t run into any of that because then a lot of people evaluating would probably say “no thanks”

lspencer724 SSC Enthusiast Points: 116 More actions · Answer 2

When upgrading to MOLP what do you use for registration key?

Marek Grzymala SSCommitted Points: 1946 More actions · Answer 3

In MOLP the key is embeded on the CD (ISO image), it already shows automatically, you don't even have to enter it.

lspencer724 SSC Enthusiast Points: 116 More actions · Answer 4

I removed the key entry cause I thought it was an evaluation key and completed the upgrade with no problems. I saved a copy of the key number if I need to re-enter it by doing the upgrade process again.

I googled the key number that was displayed and there were a few results that made me think it was a known key number.

Marek Grzymala SSCommitted Points: 1946 More actions · Answer 5

Yes, my MOLP key also shows on some pages (mostly Vietnamese) with a lot of other MS keys, including some old TechNet keys, so their use is practically impossible to detect...