
Convert Windows Server 2022 Standard Evaluation to Standard Retail edition
Microsoft Provides only Evaluation version for Windows Server 2022 on
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2022
However the evaluation version is only 180-day free trial :
You need to convert the Evaluation Edition to Retail Edition for lifetime use,
How to Convert Windows Server 2022 Standard Evaluation to Standard Edition ?
1. Open Command Prompt as administrator: (type CMDin the search bar, then right click it , and select "Run as administrator")
2. first you need to check your current server edition with this CMD
dism /online /get-currentedition
3. If you have the Eva (short for Evaluation) Edition, you need this command to check which edition you can upgrade to dism /online /get-targeteditions
4. Convert your Windows to the edition you want.
As we can see our current version is Windows Server 2022 Standard Evaluation Edition, We can upgrade it to Standard or Datacenter Edition
Convert the Windows Server 2022 Standard Evaluation to Windows Server 2022 Standard :
dism /online /set-edition:serverstandard /productkey:xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx /accepteula
Convert the Windows Server 2022 Standard Evaluation to Windows Server 2022 Datacenter:
dism /online /set-edition:serverdatacenter /productkey:xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx /accepteula
You need the Windows Server 2022 Standard Product Key or Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Product Key to replace the xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx , you can get it from the reseller keyingo.com
We will upgrade it to Windows Server 2022 standard retail edition as an example :
5, Then type "Y" in the command, the PC will restart , and upgrade to Windows Server 2022 Standard Edition