Hi All,
A consultant just installed several Windows Server 2012 R2 Data Center virtual machines on some new hardware on behalf of my employer. Unfortunately they did not use an ISO from my employers Microsoft VLSC (Volume License Software Center) downloads page for the Windows Server installations.
The result is a message in Windows Server as follows -
Worse still when I attempt to activate Windows with a viable key (which I have retrieved from the VLSC) I see the message below.
It seems that ISOs from the VLSC are intimately linked to keys from same, or perhaps the consultant used a boxed disk instead of a downloaded ISO.
At any rate I am not in a position to reinstall the operating systems (on multiple VMs) because doing so would be inhibitively expensive and would lead to unacceptable business down time.
Is there another way of changing the product key such as through the use of PowerShell.
Any help here will be greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Davo