How can I find out the windows server 2008 R2 edition?

Question

How can I find out the windows server 2008 R2 edition ?

Answer 1

winver 

This will pop up a Window with the Edition name (e.g Windows Server 2008 R2 etc) Version number (6.1 for W2K8 R2), Build Number and some licensing info.

ver

Will give you the version number in the format 6.1.BuildNo from a CMD shell. Windows 7 and 2008R2 both report as version 6.1.x.

Answer 2

see this answer: How to detect Windows Server 2003/2008 Release (R1 or R2) programatically?

Answer 3

Download it? Here http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/default.aspx or via MSDN.com