Windows 2025 Server Evaluation to Full Version conversion

 You installed Windows Server Evaluation for evaluating, testing, or training purposes. Now you want to apply a license key, but it’s not activating, and an error appears. That’s because you have to convert from Evaluation to Full Version first. After that, you can insert your license key. In this article, you will learn how to upgrade from Windows Server Evaluation license to Full Version

Find Windows Server edition

You can find the Windows Server edition in the right corner and the days remaining before the grace period expires.

The Windows License evaluation period begins and runs for 180 days.

Note: You can Extend the Windows Server Evaluation Period 6 times and run a trial version for a total of 3 years.

Check the current Windows Server edition with the DISM PowerShell command.

DISM /Online /Get-CurrentEdition

The below output appears.

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.17763.3406

Image Version: 10.0.17763.5696

Current edition is:

Current Edition : ServerStandardEval

Run the Get-ComputerInfo cmdlet to list the Windows Server OS name and edition.

Get-ComputerInfo | Select-Object WindowsProductName, WindowsEditionId

The below output shows that Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Standard Evaluation is running.

WindowsProductName                      WindowsEditionId
------------------                      ----------------
Windows Server 2019 Standard Evaluation ServerStandardEval

Now that you have the Windows Server edition, let’s go to the next step.

Get Windows Server target editions

Check to which Windows Server versions you can upgrade.

DISM /Online /Get-TargetEditions

The below output shows that you can upgrade to one of the following editions: Server Standard or Server Datacenter.
Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.17763.3406

Image Version: 10.0.17763.5696

Editions that can be upgraded to:

Target Edition : ServerStandard
Target Edition : ServerDatacenter

DISM /Online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /productkey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX /AcceptEula

Server Datacenter version:

DISM /Online /Set-Edition:ServerDatacenter /productkey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX /AcceptEula

In our example, we will run the below command in PowerShell to upgrade to Windows Server 2019 Standard.

DISM /Online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /productkey:N69G4-B89J2-4G8F4-WWYCC-J464C /AcceptEula

Note: After you run the command, it will take some time, and you have to wait for it to finish. It’s completely normal if you see the progress hang on 10% for a while.

The below output appears. Press Y to restart the computer.

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.17763.3406

Image Version: 10.0.17763.5696

Starting to update components...
Starting to install product key...
Finished installing product key.

Removing package Microsoft-Windows-ServerStandardEvalEdition~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.17763.1
[==========================100.0%==========================]
Finished updating components.

Starting to apply edition-specific settings...
Finished applying edition-specific settings.

The operation completed successfully.
Restart Windows to complete this operation.
Do you want to restart the computer now? (Y/N)

Verify Windows Server version

After the computer restarts, run the command to verify the Windows Server version.

Get-ComputerInfo | Select-Object WindowsProductName, WindowsEditionId

Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS)

A Windows and Office activator using HWID / Ohook / KMS38 / Online KMS activation methods, with a focus on open-source code and fewer antivirus detections.

Download / How to use it?

Method 1 - PowerShell (Windows 8 and later) ❤️

1. Open PowerShell (Not CMD). To do that, right-click on the Windows start menu and select PowerShell or Terminal.
2. Copy and paste the code below and press enter

irm https://get.activated.win | iex

or (deprecated, will be retired on Dec 31 2024, use above instead)

irm https://massgrave.dev/get | iex

3. You will see the activation options. Choose [1] HWID for Windows activation. Choose [2] Ohook for Office activation.
4. That's all.