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Old 04-27-2016, 11:51 AM
Johnnygoose Johnnygoose is offline
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Default Any IT techs familiar with Microsoft Server licensing

Our company bought a new server to use with one application that requires SQL Server. The server came with Windows Server 2012 Essentials pre-installed. We found out SQL Server will not work with Essentials so the tech installed an evaluation version of Windows Server 2012 Standard. Now I need to license this and I'm trying to confirm the correct license to buy. I found one (link below) but CDW told me it's an OEM version and I need a Retail version. I understand there's no support with an OEM version but I can't find a retail version, other than that is there a reason I can't use an OEM version? Someone suggested that I purchase R2 and use the downgrade option but that's not something I'm comfortable doing.

https://www.cdw.com/shop/products/Mi...e/2833290.aspx

 


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