>if only I knew the right people instead of having to get licenses in very sketchy ways.
You can buy it off the shelf. It's going to set you back $300+ dollars, but it's not hard. https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-inst...
You can buy it off the shelf. It's going to set you back $300+ dollars, but it's not hard. https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2167558-explicit-inst...
It's as if the idea of people putting together their own PCs just never occurs to Microsoft.
MS very explicitly doesn’t target these releases to consumers, it’s entirely possible to do it by adding the 4 x useless products to get over the 5 x volume requirement. It’s sad, but not shocking they didn’t cover the edge case of a custom builder. If you were a firm building machines, you’d again get a special setup and do provisioning and key burning into bios etc.
I cannot help but think that there are a lot of "dark matter" sysadmins plunking away like me, just maintaining machines for friends or tiny businesses, and that we're underserved as a market segment.