@travisdh1 said in Evaluation time of year - self evaluation:

@IRJ said in Evaluation time of year - self evaluation:

Think of it this way.... You get to put focus with your evaluation on specific areas you care about. Sure they ask you general questions, but most of the time they are very open ended and you can really take them anywhere you want.

You can, yes, but most of us aren't good at sales, and all that's really all these things are. Selling them on what you've done over the past year.

Self marketing is extremely important. If you cannot master it, you will never get paid what you are worth. It's like job hunting, the minor details can mean the difference between $70k and $130k salary.

I personally like to pick what the evaluation will be about, and move things in the direction I want. For example, you can show that you've mastered your current role by showing vast improvement in specific areas over the past year where you have implemented automation of some sort.

@dbeato said in How to change you Server 2016 Evaluation into a Standard License:

@jaredbusch said in How to change you Server 2016 Evaluation into a Standard License:

I have had to do this a couple times and always need to look up the command.

So I thought I would drop it here so I can search here first in the future.

DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /AcceptEula /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

0_1510698622929_63007167-819c-4838-a470-1ec4889d4844-image.png

Technet Article for doing this on Server 2012: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj574204.aspx

Great job on the powershell, others usually do the command prompt.

Right click on Start open Powershell. I use that only because it is default. The command works in both. I have no preference for something like this command.

The thing that points to there not being anything to worry about, while lacking the "unlimited" is a bit odd, is that those with limits say that there are limits. It doesn't say unlimited, but it does give a limit, either.

@scottalanmiller said:

Well that's something. Is it a good incentive? What a weird thing to offer, as if getting a master's helps them in any way.

Fairly good. I've argued that point in the past... but working for/with friends has its perks.