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#REARM TRIAL WINDOWS SERVER 2016 HOW TO#
#REARM TRIAL WINDOWS SERVER 2016 INSTALL#
#REARM TRIAL WINDOWS SERVER 2016 WINDOWS 10#
#REARM TRIAL WINDOWS SERVER 2016 SOFTWARE#
#REARM TRIAL WINDOWS SERVER 2016 CODE#

Click the One Time trigger, and then click Edit.

For example, click Extend.xml or ReArm.xml.

In the Task Scheduler, click Import Task on the “Action” menu.

Click Start, point to Administrative Tools (in Windows, go to Control Panel -> System and Maintenance), and then click Task Scheduler.

Or, download a copy of ReArm.xml directly (you still need to change the “UserID”). In the Task, change the value of the following UserID tag (as in domain\alias line) to contain domain name and user name alias (for user on domain Active Directory), or local host name and user ID (for standalone Windows Vista user).

#REARM TRIAL WINDOWS SERVER 2016 CODE#

On the Windows or Windows Server system, copy and paste the following Task code to text editor such as Notepad.

#REARM TRIAL WINDOWS SERVER 2016 HOW TO#

How to Automate the Rearm and Extension of the Activation Grace Period in Windows Server and Windows Client

#REARM TRIAL WINDOWS SERVER 2016 WINDOWS 10#

Instead of remembering the activation grace period expiry or ending date to manually rearm and reset activation grace period in Windows and Windows Server, Microsoft provides the following script which can be used with Task Scheduler to schedule automatic extension of the evaluation period and activation-bypass grace period of Windows Server every 60 days, which should be able to used in Windows client OS such as Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 too which requires to be triggered every 30 days. System administrators also certainly don’t want to face with uncertainty or instability possibly brought by expiry of activation grace period, especially if the server is running critical processes, applications or databases. Surely you don’t want a warning dialog message box pops up suddenly to notify that you may be victim of counterfeiting or to activate the system now, especially if your notebook/laptop computer is used for business presentation. Neither Windows nor Windows Server display prominently when is the activation-free evaluation grace period ends (even though it’s actively reminding user to activate Windows with information on how many days left to activate, which usually ignored by users). The initial grace period given is 30 days and 60 days respectively for Windows client OS and Windows Server OS, and user has to “rearm” the system when the expiration of grace period is nearly ending in order to reset and extend the trial evaluation period, and hence granted the activation grace period again.

#REARM TRIAL WINDOWS SERVER 2016 INSTALL#

Slmgr.vbs is a Visual Basic script to control the tasks related to licensing of Windows OS from the command line.Windows and Windows Server operating systems such as Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 or later have free activation grace period which allows user to install and use the operating system for 120 days and 240 days without product key or product activation completed.

#REARM TRIAL WINDOWS SERVER 2016 SOFTWARE#

As indicated in the message, restart the server so the license gets activated.Īs you may have guessed, SLMGR stands for Software Licensing Manager.

The successful execution of the VB script is notified by a message. The “rearm” option is to reset the licensing status of the machine. If you’re running the Datacenter Edition or some other one, run the following command: The above script works only on the Standard Edition of the Windows Server. To fix the issue, run the following command in an elevated command prompt: Yes, it’s something you need to take care even in evaluation mode. This hourly-unpleasant-surprise-shutdown behavior is because the server has not yet been activated. For me it was serious as the server had abruptly shutdown while I was installing the AppDynamics Controller on it. This can just be a rebuff or a serious destruction of your unsaved work. If you’ve installed the 180-day Evaluation Edition of Windows Server 2016 or 2012, you’re likely to have experienced the server getting shutdown automatically every hour without any notification.