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Free Windows Server 2025 Evaluation (Install, Convert, Activate)
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Jun 21, 2025
Windows Server 2025 has lower system requirements comparing to Windows 11, less built-in apps and services, also faster / easier installation since no TPM installation requirements. This video is to show you how to get a Windows Server 2025 evaluation, then covert it to normal version using Microsoft offcial key to activate it. Download link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2025 Product Keys link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/kms-client-activation-keys Related Post: ✍https://blog.51sec.org/2023/01/how-to-upgrade-windows-10-evaluation.html Related Videos: 🌟https://youtu.be/7Zp3O_ene18 🌟https://youtu.be/VIN2o9kN9gw 🌟https://youtu.be/0iFhMrDvYpY 🌟https://youtu.be/2VuaySrYsng 🌟https://youtu.be/WYJGPXDayOo 🌟https://youtu.be/5hw58NnrWG8 💖Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 3:21 - 1. Download Windows Server 2025 4:49 - 2. Install Windows Server 2025
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[Music]
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hi YouTubers welcome to my channel This
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is Johnny In today's video I'm going to
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talk about the Windows Server 2025
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installation and activation Why Windows
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Server 2025
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This has been released since November
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1st 2024
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and already been released to
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manufacturing almost one year now 12
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months ago and couple of reason why I
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prefer to use Windows server 2025
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sometimes because it's less requirement
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than Windows 11 as you can see for the
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server core 512 mag and 2 G for the
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server with desktop experience 32
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gigabyte free space more importantly it
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doesn't need a TPM only for certain
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features if you enable it and the UEFI
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also is not required so basically all
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those requirements lower than Windows
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11's requirement 4 GB run usually
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running very well for the Windows server
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version another reason why I trying to
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use uh Windows Server 2025 Pi in my
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environment because it's a very clean
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operating system comparing to Windows 11
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There's no loss commercial features such
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as recommendation popup ads and
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pre-installed all kind of softwares The
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server version usually is lightweight
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only necessary software and service
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installed In that way we don't have to
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waste our resources to have those
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built-in software or services in our
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system In my channel I do have quite a
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few videos to introduce those
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lightweight LTSC Windows 11 or special
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versions
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uh Windows 11 as you can find out those
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from my videos here But without any
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adjustment for your operating system you
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can directly install Windows Server 2025
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ARM For low advanced users using Windows
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2025 server version can better than
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control their operating system and have
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better performance comparing to Windows
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11 The last reason is uh because Windows
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Server 2025 is so easy to install and so
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easy to get activated which is I'm going
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to present it in this video So if you
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search download Windows 2025 you should
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be able to get the Microsoft evaluation
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center and uh Microsoft does has a KB to
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show you how to convert or upgrade
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Windows server version to retail version
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Basically you can install evaluation
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version
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and then convert it to the retail
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version So now let's jump into it Here
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is what I like It is so easy to get the
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Windows Server 2025 Just download
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Windows 2025 search online and you will
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get the Microsoft evaluation center
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Evaluation as I mentioned before you can
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upgrade it convert it to a retail
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version very easy which I can
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demonstrate later on But now for us just
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download the ISO file You also can try
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it on a a zoo environment or download
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VHD but the easiest way is download ISO
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file So let's get it You might need to
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put some information here So that's what
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I do
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After you fill in all information
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download now
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So you should be able to get this page
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Uh you will find this link from the
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video description as well Uh there's a
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couple version There's some different
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language version as well Uh for me 64bit
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So downloading will take a while since
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it's a actually very big file It will
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take some time Um let's pause the video
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for now and then I will come back once
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it's completed
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Download has been completed So we got
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the file which is 5.6 6 GB and you will
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see evaluation
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here So now we're going to install it
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For demo purpose I'm going to use VMware
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Workstation to create a virtual machine
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and then install Windows 2025 on it The
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step is the same You just need to burn
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the Windows 2025 to a USB or disk Then
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you can boot it from there Create a new
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virtual machine
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Just using hardware compatibility We
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using default one Next Um
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we just choose our new downloaded the
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ISO file Open for it Next It's um
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Windows system
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You can use uh Windows 10 and later x64
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this version Next we're going to put the
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Windows
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2025
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as our virtual machine name So it's
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going to create in a new folder on the
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virtual machines folder
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You can use BIOS UFI doesn't matter So
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I'm going to use um 4 gig RAM for this
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installation
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and it as a networking
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or will be default settings
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we're going to using 60 gig disk
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You can review and customize hardware
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For example if you don't have some card
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USB you can remove them You can add
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multiple network cards in here so you
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can customize it
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Finish
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Power on the machine
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Press any key to boot from CD or DVD So
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which is same as you install Windows 11
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Now we got the Windows server setup
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wizard Uh we do next
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next
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I agree
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This will going to wipe out anything on
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your hard drive
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So you can choose the version standard
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or data center You might like to use a
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desktop experience I would like to use
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in data center version
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So then now check PC
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they will not check your TPM
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So if you don't have that that will be
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fine They detect the latest a disk So
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they going to format it and create a
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partition
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on it
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Then it will start into installation
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So to make a video shorter I going to
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skip this part Let it run Once it's
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finished it I will come back to continue
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the video
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After 15 20 25 minutes waiting depending
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on computer's performance You should be
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able to get this customized settings
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which let you to type a password for
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building administrator account You just
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come up up with a password and type in
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and finish
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Okay Then we just unlock it using C
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control delete those three combination
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keys to unlock it and then type the
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password you just entered to get in
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Since this is a server version uh the
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server manager always automatically
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launch it after logged in
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You can close it
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What we want to check is the version of
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this system
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As you can see we are running Windows
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Server 2025 data center evaluation
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version 24 H2 installed on June 19th
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2025
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That's how easy you can get the Windows
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2025 on your machine
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for this new installed evaluation
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version Once you logged in you may
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notice there's a Windows Server 2025
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data center evaluation at the bottom
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right of your screen and it's mentioned
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it valid only for 180 days You also can
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get it from here The addition is
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evaluation version
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but Microsoft does allows us to convert
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it from evaluation version to detail
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version first Then you can convert
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between retail volume licensed or OEM
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licensed So here is the command we're
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going to use in this command to convert
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to a retail product version Um there's a
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product key We will need it Actually
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Microsoft already provided to us If you
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look at the key management service
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client activation product key you should
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be able to find out the Windows 10
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server 2025 this key here So we're going
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to use that to uh convert the version
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and activate it There's a couple
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commands I going to show which you can
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find from video description as well or
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from my blog post
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So let's go to the command line
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right click run cmd
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So we're going to using this command So
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it's a command Okay from Microsoft KB
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and the key which is provided also by
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Microsoft
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So we just need to enter then this
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evaluation version will be converted
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is adding package Microsoft Windows
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server data center edition into this
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system
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Well of course you do need to reboot
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your computer So let's give it reporting
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During reporting you do see this adding
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features notification So just wait it to
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be completed It's clean up
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Now we have successfully convert our
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version uh we can check that through the
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system
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So Windows Server 2025 data center
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version If you want you can change your
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product key You want to activate it Um
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then you should be able to run couple of
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commands as well to activate your
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Windows data center We are using a key
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provided by Microsoft itself uh to
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activate your version From the command
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line just run this command just telling
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the Windows 2025 to use this product key
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After that you just need to change your
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KMS server to your local
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server if you have one If you don't have
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one you can find it from internet So
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that's your KMS server Then last step is
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just to telling system to activate it So
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once you did that your Windows system
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will be activated and you can use it
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without any limitations So as you can
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see product activated successfully Uh
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you also can check it through the system
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uh product key activation status is
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activated
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So that's how you can upgrade or convert
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your Windows 2025 evaluation version to
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the official version which you can use
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longer and you also can successfully
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activate it if you have your KMS
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So that's all for this video Thank you
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for watching If you like it please give
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