Nevermind wasting more time on finding out what release I installed over a year ago. Release 18 are very unlikely if this OS was installed in 1801. Not helpful in my case but systeminfo also shows the original install date: 18-1-2018. Results: OS Name: Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Standard You can just type in a cmd and a report will be displayed in which I know there is also OS version info. Why can’t it just show the name of the OS? Another trick – systeminfo.exeĪ nice small information utility to provide you with some data about your hardware and OS is systeminfo. The result: Microsoft Windows ĭammit Microsoft, I can’t remember all build versions out of my head. Just type ver in the cmd and you should get your version. Second try – verīut wait, as long as I can remember there is also a command-line edition of winver called ver. It only works with the desktop experience. winver is not available in the Core edition. The result: ‘winver’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. The easiest way to show the Windows version, editon and build. The first thing that comes to mind is to try winver.exe. The question now became on which Windows release am I on? So if I’m on version 1709 I was ready to proceed with the application update. The fun part is they come with different dotNET versions. There have been 4 releases and I’ve installed hundreds of servers in the meantime. The server OS I’m using is Windows Server 2016, Standard, Core edition but I don’t have any idea which release it was. I will make a small post about this for the cmd users so it’s usable on Core editions. Downside of this document is that it’s made for the GUI users. Microsoft has a doc about it with the title ‘How to: Determine which. The question is which version does my installation come with?

Microsoft ships some dotNET version since Windows Server 2012 and later versions with the OS. I can do that, easily! was my first thought…. In the release notes the orange header stated “ Please install the. The reason for this post is a release note of an app i’m using on a virtual machine.

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