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After installing and configuring  Server 2012  as evaluation mode, it is often a requirement to upgrade it to full retail version. In this post, I will show steps to activate Windows Server 2012 Evaluation to full version.  DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management Tool)  command line tool will be used to perform the upgrade of server from evaluation to full version. For Windows Server 2012 Standard, you can the system to Windows Server 2012 Datacenter as follows: From an elevated command prompt, determine the current edition name with the command  DISM /online /Get-CurrentEdition . Make note of the edition ID, an abbreviated form of the edition name. Then run  DISM /online /Set-Edition:<edition ID> /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX /AcceptEula , providing the edition ID and a retail product key.   And press  Enter  :     Press  Y  and the server will restart twice. When yo...

Many users end up using external removable media for their server’s important data. Oftentimes this can be done as part of a manual off-site backup process for important data or simply when moving sensitive data off of a server, for example with employee records, company records, litigation files, and mergers and acquisitions related documents that need to be used on a notebook without network access. I have used the TrueCrypt benchmark in many reviews including the new Xeon E3-1280, Xeon E3-1220, E3-1230, dual E5606, and W3550 CPUs, as well as the Sandy Bridge i7-2600K and i5-2500K pieces over the past few weeks. TrueCrypt is one of those awesome open source utilities that can help secure data. One will notice that the 32nm Intel parts have AES-NI and absolutely fly when doing encoding. For most external media, the 32nm parts can encrypt data at a rate many times the media rate which may make the speed seem excessive. However, TrueCrypt can be used on system disks and RAID arrays al...