Convert MAK to KMS licenses

Question

Dear,

Via this account I'm writing I've access to our MS Volume licensing center.

We purchased licenses for our activation of Windows Server 2019 standard servers.
Now we got MAK licenses.

Our current systems are all Windows Server 2019 Standard evaluation editions and we cannot use the key to activate them.
Even not with the powershell command from the website.

Do we need KMS licenses? Can we have the MAK converted to KMS?

Best regards,
Jens

Answer 1

Try using the KMS key here as intermediary step
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/kmsclientkeys
Dism /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /AcceptEula /ProductKey:xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx

then after reboot
slmgr /ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
slmgr /ato

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Answer 2

Hi,
Please refer to this detailed discussion on activating Windows server 2019 Evaluation Edition using MAK:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/58587/windows-server-2019-activation-from-evaluation.html

Best regards.

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