In Place Upgrade Of Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard To Enterprise Or Datacenter Edition

In Place Upgrade Of Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard To Enterprise Or Datacenter Edition

 

If you want to upgrade a server running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard to either the Enterprise, or Datacenter editions, it’s possible to do so online, without re-installing Windows.

Suggested Method will not disturb your existing Windows installation or applications installed on previous version.

Here i will show you the step by step upgradation of windows standard to datacenter edition, if you want to upgrade to Enterpise edition than just use "ServerEnterprise" insted of "ServerDataCenter" with Enterprise Product key as mentioned below product key table.

So are you ready to upgrade??? let's Start...

Open command prompt with run as Administrator rights and type DISM /Online /Get-CurrentEdition.  This will return the current Windows version.

Type DISM /Online /Get-TargetEditions to list the Windows editions to which this server can be upgraded.

If you type DISM /Online /Set-Edition:ServerDataCenter you’ll get the message in the screenshot below.  This is because even if you’re using a KMS server for internal activation, you have to provide a product key.  Fortunately, Microsoft have a page that lists the KMS client setup keys http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff793421.aspx.  On this page you can find keys for Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Datacenter.

Typing DISM /Online /Set-Edition:ServerDataCenter /ProductKey:xxxxxx will upgrade the operating system.  All that’s required to complete the upgrade is a reboot.

 

Please find below Upgradation keys for diffrent possible versions, i recommend you to use Any time Upgrade for Client OS.

Platform	Operating system edition	Product key
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Client				Windows 7 Professional	FJ82H-XT6CR-J8D7P-XQJJ2-GPDD4
Client				Windows 7 Professional N	MRPKT-YTG23-K7D7T-X2JMM-QY7MG
Client				Windows 7 Professional E	W82YF-2Q76Y-63HXB-FGJG9-GF7QX
Client				Windows 7 Enterprise	33PXH-7Y6KF-2VJC9-XBBR8-HVTHH
Client				Windows 7 Enterprise N	YDRBP-3D83W-TY26F-D46B2-XCKRJ
Client				Windows 7 Enterprise E	C29WB-22CC8-VJ326-GHFJW-H9DH4
Server				Windows Server 2008 R2 Web	6TPJF-RBVHG-WBW2R-86QPH-6RTM4
Server				Windows Server 2008 R2 HPC edition	TT8MH-CG224-D3D7Q-498W2-9QCTX
Server				Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard	YC6KT-GKW9T-YTKYR-T4X34-R7VHC
Server				Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise	489J6-VHDMP-X63PK-3K798-CPX3Y
Server				Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter	74YFP-3QFB3-KQT8W-PMXWJ-7M648
Server				Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems	GT63C-RJFQ3-4GMB6-BRFB9-CB83V
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
Client				Windows Vista Business	YFKBB-PQJJV-G996G-VWGXY-2V3X8
Client				Windows Vista Business N	HMBQG-8H2RH-C77VX-27R82-VMQBT
Client				Windows Vista Enterprise	VKK3X-68KWM-X2YGT-QR4M6-4BWMV
Client				Windows Vista Enterprise N	VTC42-BM838-43QHV-84HX6-XJXKV
Server				Windows Web Server 2008	WYR28-R7TFJ-3X2YQ-YCY4H-M249D
Server				Windows Server 2008 Standard	TM24T-X9RMF-VWXK6-X8JC9-BFGM2
Server				Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V	W7VD6-7JFBR-RX26B-YKQ3Y-6FFFJ
Server				Windows Server 2008 Enterprise	YQGMW-MPWTJ-34KDK-48M3W-X4Q6V
Server				Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V	39BXF-X8Q23-P2WWT-38T2F-G3FPG
Server				Windows Server 2008 HPC	RCTX3-KWVHP-BR6TB-RB6DM-6X7HP
Server				Windows Server 2008 Datacenter	7M67G-PC374-GR742-YH8V4-TCBY3
Server				Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V	22XQ2-VRXRG-P8D42-K34TD-G3QQC
Server				Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems	4DWFP-JF3DJ-B7DTH-78FJB-PDRHK

How to reset Administrator password Offline by using Hiren Boot CD

How to reset Administrator password Offline by using Hiren Boot CD

Hellow Friends hear i will demonstrate you to reset Administrator password offline by using Hiren boot CD.

Now a day's i got many Calls regarding Forgot Administrator Password so i plan to post same problem solution, hope this solution may help you tooo.

below solution is for education purpose only.

prior to explaining the solution download "Hiren Boot CD" from below official link.

http://www.hiren.info

on above link you can get how to burn CD and Make bootable pendrive information with step by step.

Step By Steps:

1) insert Bootable CD / USB pendrive and boot computer with bootable CD/USB.

2)  After booting from CD you will get Hiren Boot CD Home page with Many Options.

3) Choose "offline NT/2000/xp/vista/7 Password changer".

4) Now it will asking for input " Boot : " just press Enter.

5) it will start loading file systems and show available HDD and all partitions, Select BOOT Partition. in My case boot partition was 1 as mentioned below image. After selecting partition number and press enter.

6) now it will take a minute to get information from HDD and ask for your input about windows system32/config Directory.

Generally by default Boot Partition has this path otherwise need to mentioned hear.

Just Press Enter in my Case.

7) Now Actual Step Two Starts of Hiren Boot CD.

it will ask for user inputs

1. Password reset [sam system security]

2. Recovery System Console parameters [software]

q. quit

Select 1 for password reset and press enter.

8) Step Three : password or registry edit.

Select "1" for edit user data and passwords then press enter.

9) now it will show total users available in the system, select the particular users which you want to reset password.

in my case i use "Administrator" user account to reset password

Note : if you want to reset in build administrator Account password then just press enter otherwise type respective username.

 In windows 7 operating system Administrator Account has been disabled by default, in that case need to enable user account first and then reset password.

  

10 )  Select "Clear {blank} user password" option to clear password.

 Select "1" and press Enter.

 11)  Password Cleared message. 

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12) This is very important step in this exercise, password is cleared but not save yet!!!, so need to save changes by pressing " !" and enter.

Many peoples are clear the password and restart computer and not get the result because forgot to save changes in registry because this is registry edit step need to commit changes in to registry after changes.

13) Now Press "q" to save and exit.

14) Now SAM has been changed and status should be OK as mentioned in below image.
now it will ask for user input to write SAM File, Press "y".
Press "n" to exit.

15)  Greetings!! password has been cleared, now remove CD/USB Drive from Computer and Press ctrl+Alt+Del button to restart.

Start Computer in normal mode and Enjoy!!!!