Activate Windows when remote connect

[Guest JJM0926]

Hope someone could help shed some light.

 

When I try to remote desktop connect to our Windows 2003 server I get

an activate windows message. I can log in to the server as

Administrator, but can't get any further. It prompts for activation.

It is already activated and we've had this server for years. What's

really odd is I can go on the server itself and on the console and I

don't get any activation message. We haven't done any upgrades or any

recent updates. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

[Guest Greg O]

Re: Activate Windows when remote connect

 

On Jul 19, 8:19 am, JJM0926 <jjm0...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hope someone could help shed some light.

>

> When I try to remote desktop connect to our Windows 2003 server I get

> an activate windows message. I can log in to the server as

> Administrator, but can't get any further. It prompts for activation.

> It is already activated and we've had this server for years. What's

> really odd is I can go on the server itself and on the console and I

> don't get any activation message. We haven't done any upgrades or any

> recent updates. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

 

Perhaps if you phone Microsoft activation and get an unlock code it

will be fixed. You say you didn't change any hardware?

[Guest JJM0926]

Re: Activate Windows when remote connect

 

On Jul 20, 9:00 am, Greg O <grego...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jul 19, 8:19 am, JJM0926 <jjm0...@gmail.com> wrote:

>

> > Hope someone could help shed some light.

>

> > When I try to remote desktop connect to our Windows 2003 server I get

> > an activate windows message. I can log in to the server as

> > Administrator, but can't get any further. It prompts for activation.

> > It is already activated and we've had this server for years. What's

> > really odd is I can go on the server itself and on the console and I

> > don't get any activation message. We haven't done any upgrades or any

> > recent updates. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

>

> Perhaps if you phone Microsoft activation and get an unlock code it

> will be fixed. You say you didn't change any hardware?

 

Didn't change any hardware. I rebooted and ran an update on it from

the console. Once updates were finished, everything was back to

normal. I can remote connect in from a workstation and I no longer

get the activate windows message anymore. Not sure what happened. As

I mentioned, there hasn't been any recent updates ran on the server,

no change in hardware or anything....Oh well...That's Microsoft for

you sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't...

[Guest Brian Spolarich]

Re: Activate Windows when remote connect

 

"JJM0926" <jjm0926@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> Didn't change any hardware. I rebooted and ran an update on it from

> the console. Once updates were finished, everything was back to

> normal. I can remote connect in from a workstation and I no longer

> get the activate windows message anymore. Not sure what happened. As

> I mentioned, there hasn't been any recent updates ran on the server,

> no change in hardware or anything....Oh well...That's Microsoft for

> you sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't...

 

You may be experiencing this:

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312362

 

See my thread "Console Logon Issues with WSS 2003 R2".

 

Basically memory management problems cause DLL calls to fail. On my

system this eventually caused WPA calls to fail, making Windows think it

wasn't activated. A reboot would fix the problem, until the memory issues

got to the point where they started impacting running processes, and the

cycle would repeat.

 

I don't know yet if the registry changes suggested in the KB article

worked yet (its only been a few days since I made the changes), but we'll

see. If you're seeing the 2020 errors from SRV then this is the likely

culprit.

 

-bws