This will be a quick post and one of the easiest steps in setting up your Exchange environment. In this seventh part of the series I’ll look at where to enter the product key for Exchange 2013.

Unless you deploy lots of Exchange 2013 servers, licensing an Exchange 2013 server may be something you only do once so here’s a quick guide on applying the license key in the Exchange admin center and via the Exchange Management Shell.

Once the license is applied you’ll need to restart the Information Store.

In the Exchange admin center select servers form the left hand menu.

In the middle pane highlight your Exchange server and then click on the Enter Product Key link on the right hand side.

Type in your product key and click save.

Read the warning message and click ok.

Press Windows Key + R and type services.msc.

Scroll down to Microsoft Exchange Information Store, right click and select Restart.

It’s probably worth noting here just how many more services there are now in Exchange 2013, compared to previous versions.

You have now licensed your Exchange 2013 server.

Exchange Management Shell

To perform the same tasks with PowerShell in the Exchange Management Shell youll need the following cmdlet: Set-ExchangeServer

Set-ExchangeServer -Identity OX-EXCH1 -ProductKey 12345-12345-12345-12345-12345

For the other articles in this series please go to:

• Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update installation tips and best practices
• How to install Exchange 2013 (SP1) on Windows Server 2012 R2
• Exchange 2013 Initial Configuration Settings
• Exchange 2013 Initial Configuration Settings: Setting SMTP accepted domains (Part 1)
• Exchange 2013 Initial Configuration Settings: Setting email address policies (Part 2)
• Exchange 2013 Initial Configuration Settings: Rename and move the default mailbox database and logs (Part 3)
• Exchange 2013 Initial Configuration Settings: Change mailbox size limits (Part 4)
• Exchange 2013 Initial Configuration Settings: Create a send connector (Part 5)
• Exchange 2013 Initial Configuration Settings: Set the offline address book (Part 6)
  
• Exchange 2013 Initial Configuration Settings: Enter the Product Key (Part 7)
• Exchange 2013 Initial Configuration Settings: How to configure a Postmaster Address (Part 8)
• Exchange 2013 Initial Configuration Settings: How to change the FQDN on the default frontend receive connector (Part 9)
• Exchange 2013 Initial Configuration Settings: How to configure the virtual directories (part 10)
• Create and apply an SSL certificate (work in progress)