How to view the key for my Visual Studio 2012 professional

Question

_{Thursday, January 14, 2016 3:18 PM}

I have installed Visual Studio 2012 professional inside our development server (which is windows server 2008 R2) 2 years ago,, now we have build a new development server (windows 2012 R2). and i have download a new visual studio 2012 professional inside it.

now i have these 2 questions:-

1.how i can get the license number from my old visual studio ?

2. how i can remove the license from the old visual studio since we are going to shutdown the old server ,and transfer it to the new VS inside the new server ?

All replies (1)

_{Friday, January 15, 2016 8:23 AM ✅Answered}

Hi john,

Thank you for posting in MSDN forum.

>>1.how i can get the license number from my old visual studio ?

There are three ways to find the product key for Visual Studio:

• Look for the product key in one of these locations:

  • On the installation media (if applicable).

  • On the MSDN Subscriptions page of the Microsoft website.

  • Documentation or other communication from the vendor from whom you purchased the software.

Please refer to:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg442060.aspx

For your question 2, since you install a VS 2012 professional on the new server, you could go to Menu>Help>Register Product. sign in with your own account, and enter the old product key on it, after doing this, the dialog will show: license: Product key applied.

After trying the steps, you could use VS 2012 Professional on the new server

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