cohda-4.txt - P1 2025-11-11 Activate CW-SVR44  (ID:4)

11/11/25
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14:42 Email from Adam - Please find attached a quote for a Windows Server 2025 licence. It can be used to 
license Windows Server 2016. Please note that you cannot use the 2025 product key to activate the 2016 
version. Im not sure if that is required?

15:52 Email from Matthew to Adam advising we do need a Windows 2016 Activation key.

14/11/25
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12:02 Email from Adam. - Do you have a Windows Server 2016 product key at all? If you can rummage through
the filing draw and locate one it would be most welcome. If not please let me know and we will need to seek through other avenues (unfortunately not as east as being issued by Microsoft) 

18/11/25
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From project meeting:
-Cost to license? Subscription edition. Cant go to "fully managed" subscription.
-Need to insall 2016 remote management tools/Remote tools license.
-Need to get this done before next Project meeting 25/11/25
-Run scripts to Inactivate Exchange. Need to get PAul's archived emails first.

21/11/25
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16:11 Replied to Adam's email from 14/11/25 advising we do not have a Windows Server activation key.

25/11/25
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12:00 Exchange project meeting - Cohda does ot have a 2016 product key, which has been communicated
to Adam. Russell to follow up with Adam.

28/11/25
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11:46 Email to Adam following up on email I sent 21/11/25 asking what our options re for licensing CW-044.

30/11/25
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14:53 Adam replied they are chaing MS/licnsing distributor for options.

2/12/25
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12:00 Adam still chasing product key. He confirmed we are licensed for one with our 2025 server licenses.

12/2/26
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Shut down CW-SVR44. Set status to "TESTING"

16/2/26
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16:04 Responded to Matthew's Email from 12:13 advising the Exchange 2016 server was shutdown Thursday; that I was able to onboard last employee (Katherine) without having to run any powershell commands and that I was unable to test onboarding a new employee because we did not have anymore M365 Business linenses. 	
      

Refer Cohda-49.txt - "Exchange 2016 Decomissioning"