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Reputation: 15598

Unable to RDP into windows server on GCE : No remote desktop license servers available

I have windows server machine on GCE.Whenever I try to take remote or RDP into machine it is showing

The remote session was disconnected because there are no Remote Desktop License Servers available to provide a license. Please contact the server administrator

I have reset the machine but didn't work. The solutions that I got on the net needs access to the machine first, but I am not able to access the machine. Here is a link http://www.dell.com/support/Article/us/en/04/635765/EN to troubleshoot this, but I am not able to access machine as the machine is on google server.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 11982

Answers (3)

MSS
MSS

Reputation: 3860

This problem made by some kind of caching of remote desktop licensing in clients you can solve this by remove the bellow key in registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSLicensing

It's much easier to make a reg file and run it so .

  1. Make a empty text file
  2. Name it "mypatch.reg" or "mypatch.reg"

  3. Put bellow text in it and save it

     Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

 [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSLicensing]

  4. Run it by dubble click on file!

It should remove the key.

Upvotes: 1

Asaad
Asaad

Reputation: 181

According to this post the solution is to delete the following key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\RCM\GracePeriod

I Followed Sunil Garg's instructions:

mstsc /admin

to remote into the server.

Then I deleted the key. Please note you must run regedit as System user to delete the key. Use the RunAsSystem tool to achieve this

Upvotes: 2

Code Guru
Code Guru

Reputation: 15598

In my case license has been expired. But I was able to take remote in admin mode. Use the command in Run to take remote in admin mode

mstsc /admin

Then I added new license to continue remote service. For more detail on remote desktop licensing check out the link https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732684.aspx

Upvotes: 17

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