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Get your Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview here #WS2012 #Winserv #Hyperv #WindowsAzure #TEE13

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Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview

 

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Get your evaluation copy now of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview

Product Keys

Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview now supports two types of activation:

  1. Datacenter Product Key: JGXYY-7NMTC-MHKY3-QCC9B-VQRG7
  2. Automatic Virtual Machine Activation (AVMA) Key for Datacenter Server: XVNRV-9HTX4-TH2JD-HVJQD-QRQWG

This AVMA key enables license activation for virtual machines based on the license state of the virtualization server (please see this  whitepaper for more information).


Editions

  • Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Preview ISO
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Preview VHD (Server Core)
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Preview VHD (Server with a GUI)
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Preview on Windows Azure

Languages

ISO available in: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

VHDs available in: English


Technical Resources

Access technical product resources—such as evaluation guides, virtual labs, training courses, and forums—at the  Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview Resource Page.

Benefits

At the heart of Microsoft’s Cloud OS, Windows Server helps customers transform the datacenter, taking advantage of technical advances and new hybrid cloud capabilities to increase resilience, simplify management, reduce cost, and speed delivery of services to the business.

Windows Server 2012 R2 is a proven, enterprise-class cloud and datacenter platform that can scale to run your largest workloads while enabling robust recovery options to protect against service outages. It helps accelerate time to value by simplifying your underlying infrastructure and allowing you to reduce cost by taking advantage of industry-standard hardware. Windows Server 2012 R2 helps you build, deploy and scale applications and web sites quickly, and gives you the flexibility to move workloads between on-premises environments and the cloud. It enables you to provide flexible, remote access to corporate resources while managing identities across your datacenter and federated into the cloud, and it helps you protect critical business information.

Author: James van den Berg

I'm Microsoft Architect and ICT Specialist and Microsoft MVP Cloud and Datacenter Management Microsoft MVP Windows Insider Microsoft Tech Community Insider Microsoft Azure Advisor

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