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![]() ![]() Once the 120 day grace period has expired, you will see the following error when you attempt to RDP to the server:Įrror after 120 day grace period has expired for Remote Desktop Services If you are using a server in a lab environment, most likely, you are not going to license this type of server outside of production. When you install the role, by default, you have a 120-day grace period that Microsoft gives you to properly license the server for use as an RDS installation. However, when you install the true Remote Desktop Services role, you have the ability to have multiple sessions to your server. When you install Windows Server 2016 or 2019 as with previous Windows versions, you get the normal ability to have the two sessions that you generally have available for administering. In this post, I will show how to reset 120 day RDS Grace period on 20 Windows Server. ![]() In my lab environment, I am making use of Windows Server 2019 for my Windows workloads. While most trials are fairly “hard and fast” and don’t allow you to reset the trial expiration, if you work with Microsoft Windows Server and Remote Desktop Services (RDS), there is a “hack” that allows you to effectively reset the expiration of Remote Desktop Services grace period where you can essentially rewind the clock on your RDS licensing if you are making use of this role inside your lab environment. It is just part of the fun of lab environments. Note: you must take ownership and give admin users full control to be able to delete this key.If you have a home lab environment or other lab that you continually test various solutions, licensing and trial expiration is a challenge that you constantly tend to run into. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\RCM\GracePeriod The solution was to delete the REG_BINARY in The official solution is to Activate the RDS/TS CAL License server and point the Server to License server with User/Device License and will be resolve the problemīut if you want to reset the timer and again avail 120 days grace time here is the solution A Remote Desktop Session Host server can operate without a license server for 120 days after initial start up. A RD Licensing server is required for continuous operation. The RD Licensing grace period has expired and the service has not registered with a license server with installed licenses. Source: TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager While Windows installed with Terminal Server role it does work without License for 120 Days on trail license, where within 120 days if the License server is not Connected the server will stop accepting connection with below error and event ID ![]()
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