Upgrading from 2012 Standard Evaluation (Domain Controller) to 2012 R2 Standard Full

Hello,
My company recently wanted to move from a Linux domain controller to a Windows system. We downloaded and installed Server 2012 Standard evaluation, set up a domain, and made sure things were working well. Now, we want to purchase the full copy, but we see
that 2012 R2 is now out.
We would like to purchase R2, but somehow do an in-place upgrade. From what I can tell, we have a few hurdles:
*No upgrade path from 2012 Evaluation to 2012 R2 Full
*Cannot upgrade evaluation with DC role to full
What would be the recommended course of action to take here? We do have an unused machine here that could serve as a secondary domain controller that currently has no OS installed, but we don't want to buy 2 server licenses at this time if we can help it.
Thanks,
B
Braden

As far as i know you can't upgrade an eval to a full install on 2012.
you could build a new server using server 2012 R2 depends on how you normally purchase software you might be able to install without likening initially as you get a grace period. Build a new DC in the existing domain and then demote the current DC, then
rebuild it using 2012 R2, licence it and then install it back as a DC and demote the other one you created.
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actually i believe you might be able to
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn303416.aspx
Upgrade means
moving from your existing operating system release to a more recent release, while staying on the same hardware. For example, if your server is running Windows Server 2012, you can upgrade it to Windows Server 2012 R2. You can upgrade from an evaluation version
of the operating system to a retail version, from an older retail version to a newer version, or, in some cases, from a volume-licensed edition of the operating system to an ordinary retail edition.
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