Licensing Tips

Some general tips for Windows Licensing.

Change Eval to Standard

This changes an evaluation edition of Server 2016 to Standard edition, ready for KMS activation:

dism /online /set-edition:ServerStandard /productkey:WC2BQ-8NRM3-FDDYY-2BFGV-KHKQY /accepteula

Reboot, and then apply the KMS key

slmgr /ipk WC2BQ-8NRM3-FDDYY-2BFGV-KHKQY

Finally activate

slmgr /ato