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After renewing my Visual Studio Professional monthly subscription, as part of my Azure subscription, I keep getting the error
Your eval period has ended, When checking for updated license the message is "We could not unblock Visual Studio with accounts available"
My license is valid. Thanks in advance for any assistance.
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I tried everything I found online to fix this, but I fixed my own Visual Studio "stale license" error in Visual Studio under the Help->Register Visual Studio dialog by clicking "Account options" and changing "Add and reauthenticate accounts using" to "Embedded Web Browser" and then clicking "Check for an updated license" - it then prompted me to reauthenticate with after which the error went away. GL.
I have tried this (after hours of failed attempts) and it's a good solution.
You don't need to go to the Help menu. If you are stuck in the licence screen, the "Account options" link is already there (top left after your name).
Then either "Embedded web browser" or "System web browser" worked.
Seems to be some bug with the Windows Authentication Broker.
For reference:
I have VS2022 Enterprise 17.14.0 Preview 2.0, updated this week. Licence is VS/MSDN Enterprise. I have done this on 2 different computers, both Windows 11, 24H2, 26100.3624, and one worked fine (but with a lot of logins), and the other failed constantly. It was changing the auth technique that solved it.
May or may not be related, there's a GitHub (with a GH Copilot licence) on the same email, and it shows up on the licence screen also.
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Hello @Peter Thomas,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.
If you can confirm that your license is valid for activating Visual Studio Professional 2022, then please try to remove/sign out your license/account, add your account again, see if this works.
If it doesn’t work, try to rename(rename to any name for example VisualStudio_backup) this folder C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VSCommon\OnlineLicensing\VisualStudio and this folder C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\.IdentityService, restart your machine and sign in VS again.
If renaming the folders still doesn’t work, we may need to narrow down this issue. Try to install VS Professional 2022 on another machine and sign in VS on that machine. If it works, then your license is valid and there might be something wrong on your original machine/VS. If it fails, then your license may be not valid, try to double confirm with VS Subscription team here: Visual Studio Subscription Support.
Some other suggestions:
Feel free to let us know the results :)
Sincerely,
Tianyu
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Hello @Peter Thomas,
May I know if you have got any chance to check my answer?
Did you successfully sign in VS with your subscription?
Regards,
Tianyu