The rd licensing grace period has expired and the service has not registered with a license server with installed licenses.
Windows server 2012 license expired extend.
How can microsoft be so.
After window server evaluation period has expired you will found out unexpected behavior for your machine like unexpected shutdown restart every one hour approximately.
You can rearm it 5 times.
A rd licensing server is required for continuous operation.
When you home lab and you don t have microsoft license for rds you have two options.
The evaluation version of windows server 2012 2016 is valid for 180 days and you can convert your trial version to retail.
First take a look at your desktop.
Yes in fact there is cool hack which allows you to reset the 120 day grace period on windows server 2012 r2 rds and we ll show you how.
Purchasing a new windows key activate windows through go to pc settings.
You get this message when you load your windows server 2012 r2.
Reinstall the server redeploy the vm or cheat a bit.
In this case you only have two options.
But the good news is.
Reset windows server 2012 r2 rds 120 day grace period.
So that is 900 days in total.
Extend window server evaluation period has expired.
There is a solution.
The system marks the license as expired.
A remote desktop session host server can operate without a license server for 120 days after initial start up.
How to extend windows server 2012 evaluation period website.
You can extend the period to another 180 days up to 3 years.
So your windows server 2012 r2 evaluation is shortly expiring but you still need that lab and cannot afford to reinstall os and setup all again.
Extending the trial period.