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My OEM disk of WHS arrived yesterday, via express delivery, which was required because my Home Server expires tonight and I wanted to upgrade it pronto! This was so I don’t have to deal with tiresome reinstallations and moving my WHS box from its resting place onto my desk again… or so I thought.

I unwrapped the case, checked the key was there, and promptly logged onto my home PC and booted up the WHS Console. I spent a good 10 minutes looking around for the “enter upgrade key” box but couldn’t find it. Google revealed to me why I was unable to upgrade using just my product key, which I then later confirmed by looking into the help:

I guess I know what I’ll be doing the next time I get 2 hours spare.