Mohammed Wasay

Tag: grace

  • Reset Windows Server 2012 R2 RDS 120 Day Grace Period

    Reset Windows Server 2012 R2 RDS 120 Day Grace Period

    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.

    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 problem, but if you want to reset the timer and again avail the 120 days grace time here is the solution:

    Delete the REG_BINARY in:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\RCM\GracePeriod

    To delete the key you must take ownership and give admin users full control.

    After a restart of the server RDS will reset the grace period to 120 days.

  • No remote Desktop License Server available on RD Session Host server 2012 R2

    No remote Desktop License Server available on RD Session Host server 2012 R2

    A fully functional and activated 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Session Host server displayed the following message:

    This was a simple setup on one server with the: connection broker, Session Host and Licensing server with 2012 R2 CAL’s installed.

    Even though the licensing seems to be configured correctly, in server manager:

    and PowerShell:

    Licensing diagnostics:

    everywhere you look, everything seems to be OK. But the license manager shows something odd:

    No licenses are being used? This server was used since late 2012. Some interesting things could also be found in the event logs, the following events appear:

    EventID: 1130
    Source: TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager

    The Remote Desktop Session Host server does not have a Remote Desktop license server specified. To specify a license server for the Remote Desktop Session Host server, use the Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration tool.

    and:

    EventID: 1128
    Source: TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager

    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.

    The solution was to delete the REG_BINARY in

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\RCM\GracePeriod

    Only leaving the default.

    Note: you must take ownership and give admin users full control to be able to delete this key.

    After a reboot the server should be working again, licenses are now being used:

    Although everything seemed to be OK and configured correctly with valid licenses, it seems that the setup was still in a 180 day grace period, even though it was correctly configured.