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Stop Terminal Server Grace Period

A remote desktop should be accessed simultaneously around 5 members. For that i had tried with 120 Days grace period of Terminal Server. After the grace period, i cant able to take the remote desktop. After that i have logged in directly and deleted the Grace Period Key from registry. After rebooting the server, it shows again 120 days grace period.

How to uninstall this. By default 2 users can use the remote desktop. That is enough for me. I have checked the services as well as administrative tools. I dint found any thing related to terminal server.

I have attached the warning message.

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Solution

  • Unless, we get a licence this problem wont be solved.

    But, by default the grace period will be 120. That can be renewed by doing the below process.

    1. Delete the REG_BINARY in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\RCM\GracePeriod

    2. In GracePeriod, leave the Default as it is.

    3. Reboot the machine.

    I have got this solution from the below mentioned URL and it worked out.

    http://www.360ict.nl/blog/no-remote-desktop-licence-server-availible-on-rd-session-host-server-2012/

    Every 119 days we need to delete the key. So that we will get another 120 grace period.