Converting MSDN license to full, commercial license [duplicate]

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Can you help me with my software licensing question?

I had to throw a machine together in a bit of a hurry- to replace a machine that suddenly failed (no one had bothered to keep a "warm" backup) It has Windows Server 2008 and SQL 2008

The snag is, I installed them off our MSDN subscription media, due to me not having "licensed" software. I need to put this machine into production.

We are in the process of buying the licenses from a MS reseller now. Is there a way to "convert" the MSDN license to production on both Windows Server and SQL?

Solution 1:

As far as I am aware No.

The license keys are hardcoded against the distribution medium. Therefore if you use a KMS key on an MSDN media for example it won't work, unless the license is issued by a KMS server. The same rule applies to Retail MSDN media.

Your easiest bet will be to do a re-install of the OS using the new keys. You shouldn't loose anything int he process. I recently did an in-place re-install of one of my 2008 R2 boxes and no issues.

Solution 2:

Yep, its a re-install, but no need for a clean install.

If you have SQL Server Developer edition installed, you can do an 'in-place' upgrade to enterprise/standard.