Doing some pre-production testing with SQL2012. I inadvertently installed a lot of systems using our MSDN key (instead of Evaluation). I am testing very large machines with many cpus. Unfortunately for our MSDN key, it limits us to 20 logical processors used because of 2012 licensing changes to enterprise edition, which limits me on my test scenarios (similar to the link below).
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sql_shep/archive/2012/06/21/sql-server-2012-license-core-limitaion.aspx
This limitation doesn't exist for the evaluation....I get all the logical processors on the system. I would really like to change my installs all to "evaluation" instead of using our msdn key. All of the articles out there indicate how to go the other direction (from evaluation to a key). I want to go from a key to evaluation.
Does anyone know if this is possible?