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  On a Server 2008 and 2012 and 2016  RDS service that has been deployed and working for some time you begin to receive errors "The remote session was disconnected because there are no Remote Desktop License Server available" as shown below: If this is happening after the license grace period AND you already had a setup a license server, please try the below steps:.   1. Login to the server and open Registry by typing regedit.exe in Run or cmd prompt.(please note that this should be opened as Administrator. 2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\RCM\GracePeriod as shown in below window and select the GracePeriod Key. If the ‘GracePeriod’ key exists you will need to delete it.    3. You must take ownership and give admin users full control to be able to delete  GradePeriod  key.   -  Right Click on  GradePeriod  Key to take ownership of. -  On the  Edit menu , click  Permissions . -  Click  Advanced , and then click the  Owner  tab.

  With Windows Activation, the fun never ends! Recently when I was working on a windows 2016 server activation. Instead of activation of windows.  Instead, I got error code  0xc0000022 , and the perfectly valid built-in OEM key would not re-activate the same Windows on the same hardware – no matter what I did. It turns out the culprit was an ‘ access denied ‘ error in the  Software Protection  service… The error  0xc0000022  means that the  Software Protection Service  (SPS) wouldn’t start. If you’re having a similar activation error – especially with resetting an OEM version of Win 2016 on your server – then the first thing to do is verify that the SPS is the culprit. Check the SPS First, click  Start  (the windows logo button on the taskbar). Type:  services Click the  Services  app icon. Next, scroll down and find  Software Protection , and double-click it to view the settings: Make sure that  Startup type  is set to  Automatic (Delayed Start) . Then, click the  Start  button… If yo