Server 2008,2012 antivirus ideas?

I need to be able to configure an antivirus on my windows server 2008,2012 for class, without internet access.
The two different antivirus I've tried required with windows server compatibility internet access to sign in to an email-connected account
The antivirus must be free, have a 30 day trial, or use license keys.
any ideas of antivirus to use would be appreciated.

Hi,
Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) is not a free product but definitely you can use trial ware to evaluate the product. Symnatec offers Enterprise Edition, Small Business Edition & SEP.clould is also available.
About the trialware license
http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO55075
Download - Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 Trialware
https://www4.symantec.com/Vrt/offer?a_id=117135
Download - Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition Trialware
https://www4.symantec.com/Vrt/offer?a_id=77956
Best Regards,
Chetan

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Hi Xiaojin,
Thanks for posting in MSDN.
I don't think this is a bug. From your description, you want to install VC redist on some servers core for Windows Server 2008, 2012. Based on my knowledge, server core has no graphical user interface (GUI), there is no desktop. Only code written using Windows
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   Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, August 27, 2014 10:23:01 PM
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   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
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the internet connectivity issue that this whole post was about in the first place.
NOTE2: When I logged on to COMPANYDC02 this morning, it told me that I had new Windows Updates that needed to be downloaded.   Confused, I checked the most recent time WU had checked for updates at it had successfully checked for updates last night
at 10pm. Of course, it failed when trying to download them, but it appears that once in a while, a connection gets through successfully...

Unable to Install Windows Server 2012 on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V

My attempts to install are failing with a message "Windows cannot install required files. The file may be corrupt or missing....Error code: 0x800705070".
I am posting this on the Wondows 2012 Server forum but I have had exactly the same problem as described below with Windows 2008 R2 SP1.
As the title says this is on a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 host with all current updates. I have downloaded the ISO file from a Technet subscription file twice, once by direct download and once by the Akamai downloader. The virtual disk is connected with
the default IDE driver. I mounted both installation images as ISOs, located on a file system on the host server. I have tried installs by deleting the VM and recreating both the VM and a new virtual disk, re-using a previously created virtual disk, and
deleting the partitions in a previously created virtual disk, and executing the format command, and then attempting the install.
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had been quite a while since I had created VMs, that process used to work. The hardware didn't change. What changed was applying updates through Microsoft Update, and a few access control rights I changed, and at least I think, I set back to their original
value.
So in short, no, my hardware isn't supported by Windows 2008 Server. Two, your assertion that you are running the same software configuration that I am is very unlikely to be true. There are an extremely large number of things which are different between
your test system and mine, such as which Windows 2008 components are installed, what updates were installed and in what order they were installed, and what other third party software each of us is running, and between AD, and all the features, a large number
of potential differences in ACLs, options, etc. and I don't for a minute think this particular problem was caused by the underlying hardware.
I do appreciate your taking the time to try to help me, and I hope there is one thing you and I could agree on. Microsoft could pretty easily make it much easier to isolate problems. In this day and age reporting hex error codes (as opposed to doing the
table lookup in the error handling proc), and not providing more diagnostic information seems to me to be almost quaint. And in this case Microsoft can dismiss my problems on the grounds it was all on unsupported hardware. Unfortunately, I think they
are missing an opportunity to make their software better, because in my opinion what I encountered there are a set of conditions which will cause installations to fail that aren't going to get corrected.

Error upgrading Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 to 2012: 0x80070490

Hi everyone!
As it is release day for Hyper-V Server 2012, I decided to go ahead and upgrade from Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. However, I keep getting this error:
"Windows Setup cannot find a location to store temporary installation files. To install Windows, make sure that a partition on your boot disk has at least 1198 megabytes (MB) of free space.
Error code 0x80070490"
I have over 20 gigs free on the boot volume, and tons more on my VHD volume, so I don't know why it's doing this. I have shut down all VMs, there are no snapshots, nothing cluttering up my C: drive, and yes I've rebooted it several times. I have
also tried copying the installation DVD to a local volume and installing that way, but I keep getting the same error. I know the quick solution would be to just format, reinstall clean, and pray that my VMs import into 2012 (which are already safely
on another volume), but there has to be a reason this is happening.
Any ideas? :) Thanks!

Hello Vincent,
I get the same error trying to upgrade my 2008R2 server to 2012. Here's my diskpart output for the partition (it's a mirrored partition):
DISKPART> detail volume
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
Disk 2 Online 298 GB 1024 KB *
Disk 1 Online 298 GB 1024 KB *
Read-only : No
Hidden : No
No Default Drive Letter: No
Shadow Copy : No
Offline : No
BitLocker Encrypted : No
Installable : Yes
Volume Capacity : 297 GB
Volume Free Space : 268 GB
Any suggestions?

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