Category: Windows

Windows Server 2016 Standard Evaluation – “This Edition Cannot Be Upgraded”

Published by xavier on September 19, 2019

I got this error when trying to enter a product key via the GUI, “This Edition Cannot Be Upgraded”. Not sure why. However, I was able to run the following command via command prompt to activate my product key. It does take about 5 minutes to complete the process then your asked to reboot.

Dism /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /AcceptEula /ProductKey:"put product key here"

NSSM – the Non-Sucking Service Manager

Published by xavier on June 13, 2018

Create a windows service using NSSM its as easy as below; download it hereÃƒâ€šÃ‚Â https://nssm.cc/download .

nssm install ServiceNameX c:\runme.exe

Extend Windows Trial Period

Published by xavier on February 4, 2018

Open up a command prompt windows has an administrator and run the following command

slmgr.vbs -rearm