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Friday, July 12, 2019 8:27 PM

Hello,

I need to add another server to my SharePoint farm and unfortunately I have lost the production key I used originally when setting up the SharePoint farm. Is there a way to find this product key in the registry on the front end server so I can install SharePoint on the search server?

thanks,

Sherazad

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Monday, July 15, 2019 2:24 PM âś…Answered

Hi Sherazad,

For SP 2016 Just run the below code that will get you the key.

Add-Pssnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"

function Get-SP2016ProductKey {    
    $map="BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789"
    $value = (get-itemproperty "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Registration\{90160000-110D-0000-1000-0000000FF1CE}").digitalproductid[0x34..0x42]  
    $ProductKey = "" 
    for ($i = 24; $i -ge 0; $i--) { 
        $r = 0 
        for ($j = 14; $j -ge 0; $j--) { 
            $r = ($r * 256) -bxor $value[$j] 
            $value[$j] = [math]::Floor([double]($r/24)) 
            $r = $r % 24 
        } 
        $ProductKey = $map[$r] + $ProductKey
        if (($i % 5) -eq 0 -and $i -ne 0) { 
            $ProductKey = "-" + $ProductKey
        } 
    } 
    $ProductKey
} 
Get-SP2016ProductKey

Thanks & Regards,

sharath aluri

Friday, July 12, 2019 8:38 PM

Hi Sherazad,

Got to below Url to get the Product Key:

http://CentralAdmin_Url/_admin/Conversion.aspx

Below article for couple of ways to get the key:

http://www.sharepointdiary.com/2013/07/recover-sharepoint-2007-2010-product-key.html#ixzz2adRukrTR

Thanks & Regards,

sharath aluri

Monday, July 15, 2019 8:47 AM

Hi Sherazad,

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Thanks for your understanding. 

Best Regards, 

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Monday, July 15, 2019 1:36 PM

Hi Sharath,

Thank you for the respone. This is what I get when I load the URL. The version of SharePoint I have is 2016. Do you happen to have the powershell for that version?

Sherazad

Monday, July 15, 2019 6:50 PM

Hi Sharath,

That worked. Thank you very much.

regards,

Sherazad

Sherazad