19-04-2021

Exchange Server 2013 Product Key



This will be a quick post and one of the easiest steps in setting up your Exchange environment. In this seventh part of the series I’ll look at where to enter the product key for Exchange 2013.

Unless you deploy lots of Exchange 2013 servers, licensing an Exchange 2013 server may be something you only do once so here’s a quick guide on applying the license key in the Exchange admin center and via the Exchange Management Shell.

(Enter your Exchange 2013 product key). As Lucid has said, Exchange 2013 has a trial period(180 days) if you don't activate it. Based on your requirement, you could migrate the data from your old server to the new one(You could use the Exchange Deployment Assistant to deploy your new Exchange 2013 server), after that, you could decommission. Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Standard Activation Key and Download link will be send via Email within 48 business hours. Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Enterprise Activation Key is 100% Genuine CD key.Activates 64 bit version.Supports all languages version.Supports Microsoft Online Update.One key for 1 Computer; when you reinstall the Operating System or Application Software in the same computer you can use same Key.

Follow the below steps to activate your Exchange Server 2013. Login into Exchange Admin Center ( read this to know how: How To Access Exchange Admin Center in Exchange Server 2013 ) and then from the left side menu, click on servers. Then from the right side pane, click on Enter Product Key. Update the License or Product Key for Exchange Server 2010 and 2013 Making the Exchange Server Trial Version to Licensed After Installation it is mandatory to update the Product key even if this could be Exchange or for that matter any product. As we are talking about Exchange Server after Installation your Exchange Server will be running on Trai.

Once the license is applied you’ll need to restart the Information Store.

In the Exchange admin center select servers form the left hand menu.

In the middle pane highlight your Exchange server and then click on the Enter Product Key link on the right hand side.

Type in your product key and click save.

Read the warning message and click ok.

Exchange Server 2013 Support

Press Windows Key + R and type services.msc.

Scroll down to Microsoft Exchange Information Store, right click and select Restart.

It’s probably worth noting here just how many more services there are now in Exchange 2013, compared to previous versions.

You have now licensed your Exchange 2013 server.

Exchange Management Shell

To perform the same tasks with PowerShell in the Exchange Management Shell youll need the following cmdlet: Set-ExchangeServer

Set-ExchangeServer -Identity OX-EXCH1 -ProductKey 12345-12345-12345-12345-12345

For the other articles in this series please go to:

  • Exchange 2013 Initial Configuration Settings: Set the offline address book (Part 6)
  • Create and apply an SSL certificate (work in progress)

For many reasons you will need to check the available CAL for your exchange environment, for exchange 2016 that can be implemented using command “Get-ExchangeServerAccessLicenseUser” as will be described.

You should use the Get-ExchangeServerAccessLicenseUser cmdlet to return a list of unique users for the specified license name as following:

“Get-ExchangeServerAccessLicenseUser -LicenseName <String>”

The license name should be “Exchange Server 2016 Standard CAL” or “Exchange Server 2016 Enterprise CAL”

This cmdlet returns a collection of unique users for the specified license name. The list of unique users represents an estimate of your licenses when you run this cmdlet

For more reasons you may need to return the licenses count as the following cmdlets:

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Get-ExchangeServerAccessLicenseUser -LicenseName ((Get-ExchangeServerAccessLicense | ? {$_.UnitLabel -eq “CAL”}).licenseName)[0] | measure | select Count

Uninstall

Get-ExchangeServerAccessLicenseUser -LicenseName ((Get-ExchangeServerAccessLicense | ? {$_.UnitLabel -eq “CAL”}).licenseName)[1] | measure | select Count

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Or if you are not sure with one is the standard/enterprise, just make another filter like this;

Exchange Server 2013 Download

Standard CALs:

Get-ExchangeServerAccessLicenseUser -LicenseName (Get-ExchangeServerAccessLicense | ? {($_.UnitLabel -eq “CAL”) -and ($_.LicenseName -like “*Standard*”)}).licenseName | measure | select Count

Enterprise CALs:

Get-ExchangeServerAccessLicenseUser -LicenseName (Get-ExchangeServerAccessLicense | ? {($_.UnitLabel -eq “CAL”) -and ($_.LicenseName -like “*Enterprise*”)}).licenseName | measure | select Count

Ratish Nair

Exchange Server 2013 Product Key Generator

Microsoft MVP | Office Servers and Services

Team @MSExchangeGuru

Exchange Server 2013 Product Key Finder