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Converting Windows to Other Editions

Overview

This document covers converting from one Windows edition to another Windows edition. This is especially useful for converting from evaluation editions to retail editions, or converting from one retail edition to another retail edition such as Home to Professional.

DISM.exe - Basic Edition Servicing Commands

DISM.exe can be used to carry out most basic edition servicing operations. It must be ran as an administrator, even to fetch the current edition.

Fetching Current Edition

In this example, the current edition is ServerStandardEval. This command was run on a fresh Windows Server 2025 Evaluation installation.

Terminal window
C:\>dism /Online /Get-CurrentEdition


Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.26100.1150


Image Version: 10.0.26100.1742


Current edition is:


Current Edition : ServerStandardEval


The operation completed successfully.

Fetching Target (Available) Editions

This command lists the editions that the current edition can be converted to. In this case, ServerStandardEval can be converted to ServerTurbine, ServerStandard, or ServerDatacenter.

Terminal window
C:\>dism /Online /Get-TargetEditions


Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.26100.1150


Image Version: 10.0.26100.1742


Editions that can be upgraded to:


Target Edition : ServerTurbine
Target Edition : ServerStandard
Target Edition : ServerDatacenter


The operation completed successfully.

Converting to Another Edition

This command converts the current edition to the specified target edition. In this case, ServerStandardEval is being converted to ServerStandard. A valid product key for the target edition must be provided, replace XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX with your actual product key.

Terminal window
C:\>dism /Online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX /AcceptEula


Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.26100.1150


Image Version: 10.0.26100.1742


Starting to update components...
Starting to install product key...
Finished installing product key.


Adding package Microsoft-Windows-ServerStandardEdition~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.26100.1742
[==========================100.0%==========================]
Finished updating components.


Starting to apply edition-specific settings...
Finished applying edition-specific settings.


The operation completed successfully.
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