Windows must be activated.

[Guest Ray234]

I have a user that was trying to open their PST file in Outlook, and it was

showing that it could't be accessed. I tried to RDP to the server, and it

gave me a message that "This copy of Windows must be activated with Microsoft

before you can login... Do you want to activate now?". I clicked cancel last

week when it happened, and it rebooted the server. All was fine after

reboot. I clicked No today, and it logged off the RDP session. The user

still can't access the PST file, and I can't RDP to the server. It is

several years old, so it's not a new installation issue. Any ideas?

[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: Windows must be activated.

 

Hello Ray234,

 

Some time ago MS added license keys to the list of "cracked" ones. Maybe

yours is also on it. I would phone MS support to clear it. If you have a

correct license it will not be a problem.

 

..pst files on network drives are not recommended or supported from MS. You

will get problems this way.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=297019

 

Also make sure that the .pst is not read-only.

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber

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> I have a user that was trying to open their PST file in Outlook, and

> it was showing that it could't be accessed. I tried to RDP to the

> server, and it gave me a message that "This copy of Windows must be

> activated with Microsoft before you can login... Do you want to

> activate now?". I clicked cancel last week when it happened, and it

> rebooted the server. All was fine after reboot. I clicked No today,

> and it logged off the RDP session. The user still can't access the

> PST file, and I can't RDP to the server. It is several years old, so

> it's not a new installation issue. Any ideas?

>