Free upgrade to R2?

[Guest rmangaldas@gmail.com]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but it appears from Microsoft's web

site that the "R2" in Windows Server R2 consists of free updates

released by Microsoft over the years since Windows Server 2003 was

released, which makes me wonder, can I upgrade my Windows Server 2003

install to R2 by downloading those updates? Which ones? Thanks.

[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: Free upgrade to R2?

 

Hello rmangaldas@gmail.com,

 

R2 is a feature pack, which requires additonal licensing.

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber

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> Sorry if this is a dumb question, but it appears from Microsoft's web

> site that the "R2" in Windows Server R2 consists of free updates

> released by Microsoft over the years since Windows Server 2003 was

> released, which makes me wonder, can I upgrade my Windows Server 2003

> install to R2 by downloading those updates? Which ones? Thanks.

>

[Guest Jim B]

Re: Free upgrade to R2?

 

On Jan 31, 9:04 pm, "rmangal...@gmail.com" <rmangal...@gmail.com>

wrote:

> Sorry if this is a dumb question, but it appears from Microsoft's web

> site that the "R2" in Windows Server R2 consists of free updates

> released by Microsoft over the years since Windows Server 2003 was

> released, which makes me wonder, can I upgrade my Windows Server 2003

> install to R2 by downloading those updates? Which ones? Thanks.

 

While Microsoft did integrate alot of the free updates to windows 2003

in R2, They also added a lot of branch office and replication

improvements as well. At this point I'd wait until server 2008