I recently ran into an issue where I wanted to test a deployment using Windows Server 2019 Storage Migration Service feature. It turns out an Evaluation installation does not support storage migration service and it will not appears to be missing in the Windows Admin Center.
I needed to upgrade Windows Server 2019 Evaluation to Standard edition. which is fortunately very easy!
First open up a Powershell window and run as Administrator.
Enter the following command:
DISM /Online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /ProductKey:N69G4-B89J2-4G8F4-WWYCC-J464C /AcceptEula
DISM will proceed to make the required changes and will request a reboot. Press Y to reboot the server.
Once the server has rebooted, log back in and open up Powershell again and type:
DISM /Online /Get-CurrentEdition
Congratulations you now have standard edition installed!
Please leave a comment if you found this useful 🙂
25th June 2020
Brilliant, works perfectly and then allows for our key to be entered for activation. Thank you!
10th September 2020
muchas gracias!
23rd September 2020
Genius, thanks
16th October 2020
Thanks for the post. It really helped out.
4th November 2020
Saved us a lot of hassle! Thanks for sharing.
4th November 2020
Saved us a lot of hassle!
Thanks for sharing.
19th November 2020
Thanks for the post. It’s work out for me.
29th November 2020
Thank you very much 🙂
21st January 2021
Hello.
I’m doing this for the first time, (real noob) so i prefer to ask so i don’t make any mistakes. When we run the first command:
DISM /Online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /ProductKey:N69G4-B89J2-4G8F4-WWYCC-J464C /AcceptEula
here we place our own key right?
DISM /Online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX /AcceptEula
22nd January 2021
Hi, You can then if it works great but if not use the key i’ve posted first then reboot and try it again with your own key.
28th January 2021
You are a lovely person!! Thanks very much for sharing this. Eval-> VLS -> MAK…!
So once you’ve gone to VLSC and rebooted you can then go to MAK from a retail copy. Something I ‘d been told couldn’t be done. You’ve saved me two days work at least.
Cheers!
5th February 2021
Very useful thanks for sharing!!!