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Term Srv Upgrade from Eval. not holding

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by esteig

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I have a Terminal Server that was installed using and evaluation copy CDROM. The copy is expiring and said to upgrade to a licensed version or the server would shut down in 1 hour. I obtained a full version licensed CD and performed the upgrade to the server. The message still keeps coming back and the server shuts down with a BSOD every hour or so.

Can anyone please help me with this problem???

Thanks,

Eric Steigerwald

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by nichomach

The answer (which I suspect isn't really the one you'd like to hear) is that I've never seen an eval upgrade to full licensed without grief. If it's NT4 and you don't want to lose the user accounts, you could use the addusers utility from the Resource Kit to dump the user database to a text file and then reimport it, and you may be able to avoid losing the shares by following the MS Knowledgebase Q265704 instructions for backing up the shares key onto a floppy, backing up the files you want tokeep from your eval and restoring them on to the fresh fully licensed installation in the same locations, then following the instructions for restoring the registry data.
I hope this helps, although it's a bit of an involved process.

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