How to upgrade from SCCM 2007 R3 trial to licensed version

[SamayCSA]

We were running System Center 2007 SP2 R3 trial version for 180 days and had our site fully configured and functional. We had attempted an upgrade to R3 real version using the Volume Licensing CD with proper licensing, the upgrade apparently ran and we thought everything went ok. However, just yesterday when the 180 day limit got over, the trial expired and we now SCCM does console does not show any collections, boot images, driver packages, task sequences, advertisments etc. However, the server is still responding to PXE and when machine boots up they see the advertisments and can download the images and execute task sequences etc.

 

We had the SCCM database on a SQL server 2008 server which is on another server. Is there a way to do a fresh install of SCCM and then import all the settings from this databse on the SQL server ?

 

Thanks

[anyweb]

you mean you installed SCCM 2007 trial ?

if so all is not lost, read this

 

In some scenarios, it is supported to upgrade a site from evaluation version software. For example, you can run Configuration Manager 2007 Setup to upgrade an existing Configuration Manager 2007 site running evaluation version software. However, you cannot upgrade an existing SMS 2003 site with the Configuration Manager 2007 evaluation version software.. For more information, see the supported upgrade paths in the applicable version of Configuration Manager Supported Configurations

 

via > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb693584.aspx

 

to perform the inplace upgrade see this link

[SamayCSA]

Thanks Niall, I did have a look at that article, ended up calling Microsoft, according to them, upgrade from trial to real version is not supported.. it was not that painful, with some documentation from previous install, I was able to re-install the whole server. Thank you for your help