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

Article ID: 2699998 - Last Review: April 10, 2012 - Revision: 1.1

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. 

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 and Administrator

2.       Load the OperationsManager Module (import-module operationsmanager)

3.       Connect to your ManagementGroup (New-SCOMManagementGroupConnection)

4.       Use Set-SCOMLicense “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)
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