Today is not a god day for administrators.
I get fired after my authorities decided that they have enough IT staff and they maked a bad decision by employing me. To bad for them, to good for me, now at last I will finish my faculty education and start some of my own business. Here in my country there is not yet enough hearing for IT and salaries for IT people are not high enough and that is always oposite with the resposibility they give to us. Problem is they think that one or max two mens can hold business with over 250 computers. That is posible when you have smart people who knows hot to use computers, but when you have someone who thinks that he know use computers there is a problem. It is always better for corporation to invest in something else, lets sey new chair for the director and save money on IT, and when there is a problem cause of cheap equipment there is always IT admin who is responsible. It will change, someday, I hope.

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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