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Hyper-V 2016 installation
Hi guys I am trying to install Hyper-V 2016 evaluation from scratch but on the first window it requires a license key to be entered before continuing. According to the download page no key is req...
If you downloaded Server and not Hyper-V Server, it will prompt for a key.
But no, Hyper-V Server does not / should not require a key.
The evaluation media should simply time bomb at 180 days.
Did you get it from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-server-2016
?
Hi there
I got it from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-server-2016?i=1?i=1?i=1 and I get the following:
I checked with the product team and they validated that this does not happen when the 'Hyper-V Server' media is used.
You can get this when the Windows Server media is used.
The PG verified that they downloaded and tested the English and Japanese language versions to double check - and neither prompted for a key.