How to enjoy your Windows license
Follow these easy steps in order to enjoy your Windows license:
- Access your Control Panel with your credentials once you have acquired the license.
- Go to the “View Tickets” section, where you will find one titled “New Windows License Order”, in which you will find an HTML file containing the license code.
- Enter your cloud server in order to activate your license.
- Click on the “Console” tab to administer your server (having made sure priory that it is running. In case you have just started in, we will have to wait a few seconds in order for the OS to load).
- Depending on the Windows version, you will see:
Windows 2003
A start-up assistant will guide you to the screen where you will have to enter a license number in order to proceed. Once entered, click "Next"
The installation will continue until a new screen requests your username and password
Once the cloud server´s credentials have been entered (if you can´t remember them, you may check them by accessing the Gigas Control Panel, from within your cloud server you may see the root password), clicking "OK" next
You now have your operational cloud server with Windows 2003 OS
Windows 2008
Enter the Administrator password at the login screen, followed by pressing intro
An assistant will inquire if you wish to enter the license now or at a later time:
-If you select "Type your product key": You will see a new screen where you can enter the product key, clicking “Next” through the different options Windows presents you with.
Finally, you will have your operating system activated.
-If you select "Ask me later": Windows will start a session normally, but you have to activate the license later on since you will find yourself in a few days trial period.
Click on “Initial Configuration Tasks”, “Activate Windows” in order to activate the license
A windows will request a license. Once entered, click “Next” and proceed through the options being displayed until the license becomes active.
If you select "Ask me later" Windows will login as usual but you will have to activate the license later as you will enter a trial period of some days. In order to activate the license you must click from "Initial Configuration Tasks" on "Activate Windows"
A window will ask you for the license. Once entered, you have to click on "Next" and browse through the options until the license is finally activated.
