{"id":824,"date":"2007-07-04T00:39:57","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T23:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/07\/confirmation-that-it-is-possible-to-upgrade-from-a-retail-edition-to-a-volume-license-edition-of-windows-vista.htm"},"modified":"2007-07-04T00:39:57","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T23:39:57","slug":"confirmation-that-it-is-possible-to-upgrade-from-a-retail-edition-to-a-volume-license-edition-of-windows-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/07\/confirmation-that-it-is-possible-to-upgrade-from-a-retail-edition-to-a-volume-license-edition-of-windows-vista.htm","title":{"rendered":"Confirmation that it is possible to upgrade from a retail edition to a volume license edition of Windows Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just before I went on holiday, I rebuilt my company-supplied notebook PC to run Windows Vista (running Linux doesn’t look too good when you work in the Microsoft Practice of a major IT company<\/a>). At the time, I didn’t have any volume license media and whilst I knew that all of the retail editions were contained in a single image on the retail DVD, that doesn’t include Windows Vista Enterprise Edition. Nevertheless, I installed Windows Vista Business Edition, choosing not to supply a product key (Vista allows 30 days before activation is required). Since then, a colleague has sent me the correct media and license keys, so tonight I was ready to rebuild on Windows Vista Enterprise Edition.<\/p>\n

I say rebuild<\/em> because I didn’t expect an in-place upgrade<\/em> to work but it did – “upgrading” my Windows Vista installation to a new edition was as simple as dropping in the CD and running the installer. It seemed to take a lot longer than a fresh install (understandably) but I still have my user accounts, profile and data from prior to the upgrade. So, just to confirm, it is possible to upgrade from a retail to a volume license (enterprise) edition of Windows Vista.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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