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How to renew RDS grace period on RDS hosts

August 31, 2019 by Ulrik Christensen 8 Comments

This guide will show you how to renew RDS grace period on your hosts. Microsoft gives you 120 days grace period on RDS. I would say that it would be enough to run a pilot or a PoC. I would only encourage everyone to purchase licenses for your environment and only use this article as a last option.

To renew RDS grace period, you need to find the following registry key and delete it.

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

Before you can delete the registry key, you need to change ownership. You can do that by following these steps:

  1. Right-Click on the key.
  2. Click on “Permissions”.
  3. Click on “Advanced”.
  4. Click on “Owner”.
  5. Select “Administrators”.
  6. Click on “Apply”

You can now delete the key. Reboot the server and you now have a new grace period.

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  1. Maxim T. says

    September 3, 2020 at 5:28 pm

    Hi, the key in question no longer seems to exist on newer Server 2016 versions.

    Do you have a workaround?

    Reply
    • David Florey says

      October 19, 2020 at 10:44 pm

      Still exists in Server 2019…

      Reply
  2. Kadir Ayanoglu says

    October 26, 2020 at 6:11 am

    No, where is it in Server 2019 ?

    Reply
    • Ulrik Christensen says

      October 26, 2020 at 6:45 am

      Thank you for your comment.

      The registry key can be found in the same registry path as Windows Server 2016. Make sure that you have installed the RDS roles on the host.

      Reply
  3. Matthew says

    November 16, 2020 at 3:40 am

    Can confirm it does not exist in 2019 build 17763.1282

    Reply
    • Matthew-NZ says

      January 6, 2021 at 7:07 am

      It does exist and work on Server 2019 Standard build 17763.1637

      Reply
  4. Tony starc says

    March 2, 2021 at 1:09 pm

    Thank you, for sharing this article. You save my life.

    Reply
  5. Bernard Johnson says

    December 8, 2021 at 8:10 pm

    Win server 2019 does not allow the access to be change on Administrators for full control – even when logged in as an administrator

    Reply

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