Windows 2012 License activation (MAK)

I have a Windows Server 2012 Std - via OpenLicense (Physical Host + DC and a VM for Exchange 2013)
Needed to add Remote Desktop Services - so purchased another License for Windows 2012 Std on the OpenLicense again.
Installed Windows 2012 on another Physical box - when I try to activate using MAK key I get an error that key is not valid.
Ok...I think its a R2 and NOT R2 issue!
The original Licenses included Windows 2012 St and Windows 2012 R2 keys but the new license does not !
because the 1st Server is Windows 2012 Std - (NOT R2) the copy I installed is NOT R2 as I wanted to keep BOTH server running the same version. [When I have more time I intend to do a lab deploy of R2 and test]
is there a way around this ? i.e. without doing a R2 install ??
I really need to go live with this tomorrow (monday).
Does anyone know - would it be legal to use the MAK supplied with my 1st order ?
ChrisS

Sorted...got non R2 keys issued...
ChrisS

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On 4/17/2013 10:46 AM, scunha wrote:
>
> Does anyone have Storage Manager working with the deduplicated volumes
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> move data to or from a deduplicated volume I get the following error:
>
> 182: the requested operation is not supported.
>
> The error seems pretty self explanatory. But I'm really hoping there's
> a way to get it working. We're planning to do a complete teardown and
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> Engine Version: 3.1.0.4
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>
>
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