How to change the product key on a Windows 2008 R2 Server Core

by Damian Sinay on 12/14/2011 – 0 comments


  • By default the windows server 2008 core comes with a dummy product key that you must change before 28 days or so.

    To change the product key run this command

    start /w slmgr.vbs -ipk ABCDE-FGHIJ-KLMNO-PQRST-UVWXY

    where ABCDE-FGHIJ-KLMNO-PQRST-UVWXY is your product key

    To activate the product key run

    start /w slmgr.vbs -ato

    to check the license and the activation state you have run this

    start /w slmgr.vbs -dli

    found this useful information in this site:

    http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/sanderberkouwer/archive/2008/04/01/activating-server-core.aspx


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