- Windows Server 2012 R2 Foundation Price
- Windows Server 2012 R2 Foundation Price
- Windows 2012 Foundation Prices
- Windows 2012 Foundation Price List
- Windows Server 2012 Foundation Edition
Windows Server 2012 R2 Foundation Price
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Due to COVID-19, I was recently forced to upgrade a Server 2012 R2 Foundation to Standard. This was to take over the Hyper V server role for a system with failing hardware in a building that was locked down due to COVID-19, so any solution I was to implement needed to be done remotely with no site visit. There are numerous locked questions on Spiceworks stating that this cannot be done.
Here's how I did it.
2 Steps total
Step 1: DISCLAIMER
So I was recently confronted with needing to upgrade a Windows Server 2012 R2 Foundation to Standard in order to add the Hyper V role to the server so it could take over for an existing Hyper V server with failing hardware. Due to COVID-19, I was only able to implement a solution remotely without a site visit. I want to preface this by saying this is in no means meant to get around licensing (I have a volume license agreement for Windows Server) and is definitely not supported, but given that I had no other option, I wanted to post the solution.
There are numerous questions on Spiceworks already that ask this, and all of them come back that it is not supported, so I wanted to put out the solution that I used.
Step 2: EDIT THE REGISTRY
When you go to install an upgrade, the supported upgrade paths are checked in 2 registry Values located in the following key -
Windows Server 2012 R2 Foundation Price
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrent Version
Value 1: ProductName
Value 2: EditionID
Windows 2012 Foundation Prices
If you can look up these values in an existing server, you find that Server 2012 R2 Standard -
ProductName=Windows Server 2012 R2 Standand
EditionID=ServerStandard
By changing the values that were in there for Foundation to these, I was able to immediately (no reboot needed) launch the Server 2012 R2 Standard setup and it proceeded to perform an in-place upgrade that worked flawlessly.
I had already checked that virtualization was enabled in the bios, so once the install finished, I was able to log in, add the Hyper V role, and migrate the VM to this server and shut down the failing server.
Hope this helps someone else in a similar situation.
Windows 2012 Foundation Price List
-Brad
PS - You can use a similar procedure to upgrade Windows 7/10 Professional to Enterprise
Windows Server 2012 Foundation Edition
1 Comment
- Ghost ChiliPatrickFarrell May 10, 2020 at 03:47pm
Disclaimer: This is a completely unsupported hack. It may or may not fully work, and you may or may not run into future issues by doing so. Also you made no mention about replacing the license which would also be required to be legal.