Microsoft Outlook: Upgrade from Standard 2003 trial to Standard 2003 retail not worki

  • cwatson3 / 204 / Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:12:00 GMT / Comments (1)
  • Hello,

    We were running the 120-day trial of the Standard Edition of Exchange
    2003 Server with SP1 installed. That trial has expired and we purchased the
    full retail version of Exchange Server 2003 Standard edition. According to
    the MS FAQ on the subject, a simple reinstall will promote you to the full
    version, but it's apparently not that easy. Running the reinstall from the
    official MS Exchange 2003 CD of course yields me an error, letting me know
    that it cannot reinstall over the SP1 version of the trial that is there.
    Running the update from the SP1 CD will complete successfully, but will not
    register as the full version, still saying were running the expired trial.
    I've seen other post in this newsgroup regarding this very problem, but alas
    there have been no public responses to them. I'm sure there is a simple step
    that I am overlooking, and I would greatly appreciate any help in resolving
    this.

    Thanks in advance,

    Charles Watson III

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    upgrade, standard, 2003, trial, retail, worki, microsoft, outlook

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    1. Terribly sorry about this, had posted in the incorrect newsgroup. Please
      disregaurd this post, Thanks.

      "cwatson3" wrote:

      > Hello,
      > We were running the 120-day trial of the Standard Edition of Exchange
      > 2003 Server with SP1 installed. That trial has expired and we purchased the
      > full retail version of Exchange Server 2003 Standard edition. According to
      > the MS FAQ on the subject, a simple reinstall will promote you to the full
      > version, but it's apparently not that easy. Running the reinstall from the
      > official MS Exchange 2003 CD of course yields me an error, letting me know
      > that it cannot reinstall over the SP1 version of the trial that is there.
      > Running the update from the SP1 CD will complete successfully, but will not
      > register as the full version, still saying were running the expired trial.
      > I've seen other post in this newsgroup regarding this very problem, but alas
      > there have been no public responses to them. I'm sure there is a simple step
      > that I am overlooking, and I would greatly appreciate any help in resolving
      > this.
      > Thanks in advance,
      > Charles Watson III
      >

      cwatson3 | Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:26:56 GMT |