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Am currently using the free 120 eval version of Server 2003 that come with the MCSA MS Press books. Awkwarly my studies have progressed less quickly than I hoped (I blame the Bad Idea Bears) and the end of the 120 period is approaching. I have access to technet now and can get hold of two keys from there. Does anyone know of a way to upgrade an eval license to a full license without a full reinstall (which although good practice is time consuming and utterly soul destroying)? Some kind of clever SID change or registry hack perhaps?

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It's not a recommended practice, but it looks like some people have had success by doing a repair installation.

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  • I had seen that but it does look like the only viable option. Not being a production environment I suppose it is no big deal if it is a little bit cack handed lol. Thanks for your help.
    – user15968
    Sep 8, 2010 at 18:20
  • No problem, sorry there isn't a more elegant fix. When you are dealing with enterprise OS's, though, you are often limited in what you can do without breaking things :)
    – JNK
    Sep 8, 2010 at 18:21
  • unfortunately it did not quite go very smoothly. still, was good practice lol
    – user15968
    Sep 22, 2010 at 13:10
  • Yeah, thats probably why it's not recommended! At least you learned something :)
    – JNK
    Sep 22, 2010 at 13:41

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