In short – you can’t. You can however install it using the trial/evaluation key available from Microsoft here and then later once you get the real product key you can put that in via the Properties of the Computer and activate it as fully licenses software. … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2012
How many Network Cards are supported in Windows Server 2012 Essentials?
This question is often asked by people as they try to setup things such as Network Teaming etc. It’s always been the case that Microsoft have NEVER supported more than one Network card since SBS 2008 era. Prior to that they supported two network cards, but only for Internet access and they’ve never supported network teaming at all. So – in Windows Server 2012 … [Read more...]
Windows Server 2012 Essentials Migration Documents
I was searching for a list of all the current resources on migrating to Windows Server 2012 Essentials – I finally found them on Microsoft.com. Sadly I could not locate much in the downloadable versions of these documents, but I’ll update this later once I do find them. Migrate Windows Small Business Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012 Essentials Migrate Windows … [Read more...]