Extend window server evaluation period has expired.
Windows server 2012 license expired.
Windows license is expired.
The system shuts down every hour.
This method will extend your windows only once for 180 days.
Reinstall the server redeploy the vm or cheat a bit.
Before 12 days of windows server 2012 license expiration to activate windows.
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.
Windows server 2012.
You can rearm it 5 times.
From here we want to go to the right side of the screen and choose licensing double click and choose use the specified remote desktop license servers double click select enabled and fill license servers to use with localhost or perhaps your other servers that have the licenses.
I d recommend using the fqdn of the license server.
Note make sure that the new license server is already added to the server pool on the rd connection broker server before you add it to the deployment.
This is also used to handle activation because kms clients are not setup for permanent activation since they expire every 180 days 6 months.
The following warning appears on the desktop.
Open command prompt as administrator.
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.
When you home lab and you don t have microsoft license for rds you have two options.
The only updates that can be installed are security updates.
Purchasing a new windows key activate windows through go to pc settings.
When you log on to windows you are prompted with the following options.
There is a solution.
Your windows license will expire soon.
Windows server 2012 datacenter.
Windows server 2012 standard.
So that is 900 days in total.
The windows will notify you with the following message.
For mass activation kms licensing key management server provides centralized management of activation requests for each client.