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I installed Server 2012 Standard but they gave me a &nbsp;MLSVC license is for 2012 R2 and server 2012 will not accept the R2 license key. &nbsp;Is there a way to get generate a key? &nbsp;I thought there was a tab for backward compatibility but I do not see a tab.
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I installed Server 2012 Standard but they gave me a  MLSVC license is for 2012 R2 and server 2012 will not accept the R2 license key.  Is there a way to get generate a key?  I thought there was a tab for backward compatibility but I do not see a tab.

Server 2012 R2

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Microsoft Legacy OS

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Microsoft Server OS

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.