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Re: Where is Hyper-V Server 2019?!
The Server 2019 evaluation can be activated using any volume or retail key.
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Dave Patrick i have heard rumors on this being true however the Action Pack is not a "Volume" or "Retail" subscription model. its a totally different subscription base. forgive me for my continued skepticism since you haven't answered my question on if you actually tried it with an AP key, which seems to be a NO. nevertheless, i should try it just for sh1ts and grins and see it works. wont hurt anything. thanks.
Mary Hoffman off topic for a moment, but you wanna weigh in on this? any validity to what Dave says here? :))Well there's volume, retail, and OEM product key channels. OEM can be tied to OEM distribution media. Volume and retail product keys will work to activate evaluation media.
I'd ask for help here if you didn't want to try it.
https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/support/
and start a new thread for further discussion if needed since off topic here.
Evaluation copies do not need a key to activate to run as-is. If you wish to convert an Evaluation edition to a production edition, you cannot go directly to Volume from Eval. You can only convert to Retail and you need a Windows Server 2019 Retail product key to do it. From there, I believe you can convert to Volume if you have a Volume license agreement and key. Information on conversion of Eval to Retail is here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/supported-upgrade-paths. Unfortunately I am not all that familiar with the Action Pack licensing agreement so I cannot speak to whether that includes the appropriate keys.
