Just finished building out a VM on an ESXi host 5.1. I already have 2 vms running on it, one is Windows Server 2012 (not R2) evaluation with 132 days left, and the other is a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM with 125 days left.
Now, our client needs a new Server 2012 R2 vm, so I went ahead and built out a new one with the same iso as the previous Server 2012 R2 vm. Once I booted to the desktop for the first time, the Evaluation period was expired?
So I thought maybe the iso files (downloaded directly from Microsoft) have a 1 use only setting or something on it because I wasn't asked to input a license key on any of the Evaluation iso's. So I downloaded a brand new iso, and the exact same thing happened, evaluation is expired notification on the desktop.
For the record, the build is 9600, and I downloaded them from here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dn205286.aspx
Anybody know what's going on? The client's getting new VLKs for the new servers soon, but they need the new servers now.