Yes, that is possible. Example: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...20348-1-fe_release.83200/page-51#post-1735278 None, the next SRV build, based on 11 is still Insider Preview and will be for a few years.
Thank you so much for the reply. I had already done this DSMI procedure and then used an AIO But the warning when it starts, that it will expire on the day 15 still remains, even though the AIO accuses LICENSED. I was in doubt,if it will expire or would be some delay of the AIO
Given there isn't any RTM yet how can we know? Possibly not even MS has yet decided if provide that possibility. The currently released server is server 2022 which is Win10 based, so going from Server 11 to it would be a downgrade, something that MS has never allowed since the days of Win 2x
Good to know you can look in the future. The user who asked has a 25xxx build installed which is Server 11, not server 2022 Wrong example. this is going from an evaluation version to a full one. @FabioMarcio asked if he can do an in place upgrade from a preview build, not an evaluation one.
I'm sorry about the terms. I wanted to turn the insider version into a normal version, so it wouldn't expire. I use the Server since the 2000 version to work with 3d, it is more stable than the conventional version. There are many abbreviations in the name that change always and do not understand well.
Exactly, wanted to convert the preview version to evaluation, is possible? If it is not possible, why are all people activating the preview version in the KMS AIO post? I'm sorry for so many silly questions, but it's my first time with the insider version.
What you can do is doing in places upgrades with newer builds of Server 11, until the thing will be released (maybe in 2023, maybe in 2024), then try to upgrade to the release version. Alternatively you can install server 2022 (build 20348.xxx) as a fresh install w/o formatting, then you can import back your profile using forensit, you can move things from windows.old folder to the fresh installation. If that's a viable option depends on your skill, your free time, and how much server things you have configured on server 11.
@FabioMarcio Perhaps I missed a detail that was easy to overlook. Older builds of Server 11 expires on 15/09/2022 (in less than a week from now to be clear) BUT The latest build 25192.1000 expires on 15/09/2023, so if you upgrade to it you have a whole year of relax, then we will see.
Because they can. Besides, that expiration has nothing to do with KMS, but is a timebomb built into the kernel. Means that any Server Insider build before 25192 will be non-functional in about a week. The kernel expiration date will be pushed again eventually with a new build in the future. The timebomb is implanted in order to prevent people from running unfinished builds infinitely.
Since it's a time bomb, I'll go back to version 203xxx I use it as the main system, even if version 25192 works until 2023, there will never be such a conversion. Tks to everyone who helped me.
Perhaps my Server 2016 Test Preview 4 is still alive and kicking, but it's hard to repeat what I did at the time to take it out of the grave.
Once you will receive the final bits (when next server is production-ready) the timebomb will vanish.
No, turned in to hypercore prerelease (I spent an afternoon trying to find that ISO). Hypercore prerelease (like any hypercore) has no activation at all, nor had any timebomb. The only drawback is that unlike the recent Azure HCI, is not enabled to dcpromo.exe. So no domain controller capabilities. Perhaps is *almost* no domain controller capabilities. The kernel policies applies just to the dcpromo executable, which is used only on promotions / demotions. So, if you start Server TP4 (and I think TP5 as well), you promote it as DC, then you quickswitch to Hypercore, the domain controller role still works perfectly, and it do so for unlimited time. Not that it is something that I would suggest to do in production. But is still nice to know that there is a MS server that does everything, which is as expensive as a Linux one, w/o using any crack or emulated KMS server
@Carlos Detweiller Maybe... Maybe it still works, needs more testing... Edit, yes It works Expired ServerStandard in 2029 <-------------------------->three minutes later (no reboot needed)