Unlimited Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2000 Terminal Services Evaluation Period

I have moved whole project to the Admin-Pains webpage so please check there for this document.

Thanks to Yves Junqueira blog about Reseting Terminal services 2000 90 day licence I managed to do same with the Windows Server 2003 and prolong evaluation period.

Note also that current practice of deleting the license from the client is a violation of the EULA and practice these steps only for testing purposes. I am not guarantee for any consequences that may happen after following steps. I have tested this solution with Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003 Standard and Enterprise, clients Windows 2000 Pro, Windows XP and PocketPC. For PocketPC I have used PHM Registry Editor v0.70 freeware registry edit application.

To maximize Windows 2003 evaluation, do not deploy a license server until the grace period is about to expire. For Windows Server 2003, you receive a maximum of 210 days for evaluation (a grace period of 120 days plus a temporary token of 90 days). For Microsoft Windows 2000, you receive maximum of 180 days for evaluation (a grace period of 90 days plus a temporary token of 90 days).

Recreating Licence database in Windows 2003 is quite similar to the Windows Server 2000 but there is single step that is required to reset licence. If you try windows 2000 steps on windows 2003 note that server would not recreate database, it will serve you old expired database.

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