Extending Your Activation Grace Period on Windows Server 2008 R2

[edie209]

After playing with some virtual machines I came across a problem with the activation grace period running out

 

So here is how to extend it

 

Open a Command Prompt.

Type slmgr.vbs –rearm, and press ENTER.

Restart the computer.

You computer has now extended the evaluation period 60 days!!! You can re-run up to 3 times giving you an activation-free trial period of a total of 240 days!!

 

 

How Much Time Is Remaining in the Evaluation Period

You can find out by running the same script this time with different switch

 

 

Type slmgr.vbs -dli, and the current status of the evaluation period is displayed.

[hadixavier]

After playing with some virtual machines I came across a problem with the activation grace period running out

 

So here is how to extend it

 

Open a Command Prompt.

Type slmgr.vbs –rearm, and press ENTER.

Restart the computer.

You computer has now extended the evaluation period 60 days!!! You can re-run up to 3 times giving you an activation-free trial period of a total of 240 days!!

 

 

How Much Time Is Remaining in the Evaluation Period

You can find out by running the same script this time with different switch

 

 

Type slmgr.vbs -dli, and the current status of the evaluation period is displayed.

 

 

 

i cant extend after restart on admin privilege..still got 10 days

 

i use on wmware player

[edie209]

I had one VM the other day that ran out and I have to use slmgr.vbs /rearm as slmgr.vbs –rearm didn't work .