{"id":250,"date":"2021-04-18T22:21:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T21:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2022-03-01T22:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T22:22:20","slug":"reset-windows-server-rds-120-day-grace-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/04\/18\/reset-windows-server-rds-120-day-grace-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Reset Windows Server RDS 120 Day Grace Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RD Licensing grace period has expired and the service has not registered with a license server with installed licenses. A RD Licensing server is required for continuous operation. A Remote Desktop Session Host server can operate without a license server for 120 days after initial start up.<\/p>\n<p>To reset the timer and again avail the 120 days grace time here is the solution:<\/p>\n<p>Delete the REG_BINARY in:<\/p>\n<p><em><span id=\"crayon-5f118a9ece0cb920250616\" class=\"crayon-syntax crayon-syntax-inline crayon-theme-powershell-ise crayon-theme-powershell-ise-inline crayon-font-monaco\"><span class=\"crayon-pre crayon-code\"><span class=\"crayon-i\">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE<\/span><span class=\"crayon-sy\">\\<\/span><span class=\"crayon-i\">SYSTEM<\/span><span class=\"crayon-sy\">\\<\/span><span class=\"crayon-i\">CurrentControlSet<\/span><span class=\"crayon-sy\">\\<\/span><span class=\"crayon-i\">Control<\/span><span class=\"crayon-sy\">\\<\/span><span class=\"crayon-e\">Terminal\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"crayon-i\">Server<\/span><span class=\"crayon-sy\">\\<\/span><span class=\"crayon-i\">RCM<\/span><span class=\"crayon-sy\">\\<\/span><span class=\"crayon-i\">GracePeriod<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>To delete the key you must take ownership and give admin users full control.<\/p>\n<p>After a restart of the server RDS will reset the grace period to 120 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RD Licensing grace period has expired and the service has not registered with a license server with installed licenses. A RD Licensing server is required for continuous operation. A Remote Desktop Session Host server can operate without a license server for 120 days after initial start up. To reset the timer and again avail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidirwin.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}