Select the product you need help with

How to add a product key to an eval version of System Center 2012 Operations Manager

Article ID: 2699998 - View products that this article applies to.

Symptoms

After installing System Center 2012 Operations Manager, you may look at Help -> About and see (Eval) after the Version info.This article describes how to add a Product Key to the Eval edition of System Center Operations Manager 2012.

Back to the top | Give Feedback

Resolution

To set the product key, use the Set-SCOMLicense cmdlet in PowerShell. To use the Set-SCOMLicense cmdlet you need to use elevated permissions (Run as Administrator).

1. Open PowerShell as an Administrator.
2. Load the OperationsManager Module (import-module operationsmanager).
3. Connect to your ManagementGroup (New-SCOMManagementGroupConnection).
4. Use Set-SCOMLicense -ProductId "yourlicensekey“
5. To check if changes were executed, run Get-SCOMManagementGroup | ft skuforlicense, version, timeofexpiration –a

Note: This may require a reboot after running in order to register correctly.

For more information on the Set-SCOMLicense cmdlet see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh920237.aspx

(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh920237.aspx)

Back to the top | Give Feedback

More information

If the Eval Edition has expired, you will need to apply Update Rollup 2 (UR2) or later in order to run these commands.

Back to the top | Give Feedback

Note This is a "FAST PUBLISH" article created directly from within the Microsoft support organization. The information contained herein is provided as-is in response to emerging issues. As a result of the speed in making it available, the materials may include typographical errors and may be revised at any time without notice. See Terms of Use

(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=151500)

for other considerations.

Back to the top | Give Feedback