Dedicated Windows 2019 pop up Remote Desktop license expires 110 days

Question

Hello I ordered a dedicated windows 2019 server from a datacenter, and after logging remotely and after configuring some stuff, I get this pop up informing 'rdp license would expire in 100 days' or something. Obviously I can't loose this remote access, so asked the datacenter if they could help, they said anything software related would have to be handled by me... What do I have to do, do I need to buy a license from Microsoft? Where? Or there is an error of some sort? I will be the only person accessing the server, it will have only one access Anyway I just need a solution for this AG

Answer 1

Windows Server supports 2 Remote Desktop connections for administrative access without requiring you to purchase RDS licenses. It appears that you might have installed Remote Desktop Services role on your server, which is intended for user access and requires purchasing RDS licenses. If you actually don't intend to have users connecting to your server, simply uninstall the RDS role and that will prevent the message you're seeing from coming up.

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hth Marcin

Answer 2

Hello, If you are the only one accessing this server, don't worry, try "mstsc /admin " instead of single "mstsc" , admin mode allows 2 users login to the server at the same time and no license is required. Anyway, you don't have to buy a license if the end users are less than 2.

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