180 day Eval of Win2k3 or only 30 Days now?

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I am trying to locate the 180 day evaluation download for Win2k3 but the links from previous posts take me to a 30 day evaluation only.

Has M$ changed it's mind about 180 days? Also, is there no longer a Standard version of Win2k3? Is it Enterprise now?

 

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had a quick look around, and cant find the 180 days either, all links from google say 180 but when you go to the site its 30days!

 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/trial/default.mspx

Is it not 30 days before you have to activate it?

 

Is this what you guys were looking at? This is a preconfigured Virtual Hard Disk version for use with Virtual PC I assume.

EDIT: The link to the normal version's download process is on that page too.

 

yep - custom installation aswell.

 

Well I've got to step 2 and registered for the trial software. That was yesterday. Got an email saying I'll hear from M$ soon. What's the hold-up.

So, you reckon I'll get an evaluation key to activate it before 30 days and then I'll get a further 150 days to play?

 

Kerf,

The e-mail you refer came through immediately the one time i did this myself.

If you plan on the long road of MCSE, (or any other indepth MS cert for that matter) you might want to think about an Actionpack

Si

 

£199 p.a = bargain imo

look at the amount of software you get, nice link

 

Boyce, with the action pack you need at least 1 mcp.

 

Since when?

From here:

No mention of MCP requirements at all. Further, I wasn't required to provide my MCP ID before I was allowed to subscribe.

 

More on this topic... i got SBS 2003 R2 yesterday (nice set actually!) It last for 180 days... but how many PC's can i install it on an activate it?