Forum Discussion

Copper Contributor

Mar 26, 2018

Upgrade "windows server insider preview" to final release

Hi, With Windows Server 2019, will I be able to upgrade windows server insider preview to final release ? Because it seems to me that was not possible with Windows server 2016. I've a...

General

Elden_Christensen

Microsoft

Mar 27, 2018

Yes, it is supported to do an In-place Upgrade of the OS from Windows Server 2016 to Windows Server 2019. This is available in the Windows Server Insider preview builds today, I recommend going and trying it out and giving feedback.

Thanks!
Elden

JCP

Copper Contributor

Mar 29, 2018

Ok for 2016 to 2019.
But I am not used to understand well:
Let's take an example :
I set up a DC on a Win SRV 2019 preview.
Once the final version available, I could simply use this command on the preview?

dism /online /set-edition:ServerDatacenter /productkey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX /accepteula

MarcoMangiante
Iron Contributor
Mar 29, 2018
Hello,

well if I see this link (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/change-the-windows-image-to-a-higher-edition-using-dism) it seems that with that command you can change Windows to an "higher" edition, that I suppose is the same version but from Standard to Datacenter and not an upgrade.

Marco