evaluation edition of windows server 2003 has run out

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  Please see the links below:

  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winservergen/thread/9932ea0d-935f-41ba-849d-b66443ad0901

  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/bb430832.aspx

  Hope this helps!

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  Thanks, Michael Mei

  • Marked as answer by Rubel Khan Sunday, July 25, 2010 4:03 AM

  Wednesday, July 14, 2010 7:39 PM
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  Thanks for the quick reply, It was as i fear'd. Im going to have to reinstall.

  Just to check, when i do reinstall the keys i have will still be  valid?

  Also i couldn't get the 1 key to work on the second server once i had activated the first, but in that link it says it can be used on 4 pc's at once.

  I am using server 2003 R1 as that is what the book said to use, even tho it has R2 disk with it.

  Wednesday, July 14, 2010 8:31 PM
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  "You must obtain and install the retail, released version of Windows Server 2003."

  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818025

  It looks like max is 180 days for Windows 2003.

  The max days for Windows 2008 is 240 days:

  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948472

  I don't think the keys are valid anymore, but I can't be 100% certain.

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  Wednesday, July 14, 2010 9:36 PM