{"id":17915,"date":"2015-04-13T18:38:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T18:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17915"},"modified":"2015-04-13T18:38:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T18:38:26","slug":"continue-to-use-october-2014-windows-server-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17915","title":{"rendered":"Continue To Use October 2014 Windows Server Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of folks that are using Window Server Technical Preview (from October 2014) were facing a ticking time bomb. The preview is set to expire on April 14th (tomorrow). Microsoft released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/download\/details.aspx?id=46447\" target=\"_blank\">hotfix<\/a> that will extend the life of the preview until the next preview is released in May. <\/p>\n<p>Lot of folks have reported that this hotfix didn\u2019t fix their issue. According to Microsoft:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you are running Datacenter edition with a GUI then you need to activate the install with the key from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/evalcenter\/evaluate-windows-server-technical-preview\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Sometime you will need to run <em>SLMGR \/ato<\/em> to reactivate the installation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:48cd6296-b6df-45d2-8722-53bd56be2cb8\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2016\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2016<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Deployment\" rel=\"tag\">Deployment<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of folks that are using Window Server Technical Preview (from October 2014) were facing a ticking time bomb. The preview is set to expire on April 14th (tomorrow). Microsoft released a hotfix that will extend the life of the preview until the next preview is released in May. Lot of folks have reported that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17915\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Continue To Use October 2014 Windows Server Preview&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[174,137],"class_list":["post-17915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows-server","tag-deployment","tag-windows-server-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Calendar1.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17916,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17915\/revisions\/17916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}