Access to product keys from expired MSDN subscription

Question

Some time ago I had an Enterprise MSDN Subscription and stored MSDN product keys inside.

Currently, the subscription is already expired and my organization assigned a new Visual Studio Dev Essentials subscription to the same email address.

It looks like the expired subscription was working at the obsolete MSDN portal only. Anyway, currently, I see no way to login into the obsolete subscriptions instead of the current ones.

Wonder, if there is any option to receive the product keys which were claimed by the Enterprise subscription?

Answer 1

Hi

As per this, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22067037/will-msdn-product-keys-still-work-after-the-subscription-is-expired

A quick answer before this gets closed...my recent experience with MSDN is that

• Keys that do not require activation continue to work indefinitely
• products that have been activated continue to work indefinitely
• keys that require activation are historically quite variable in behavior, but now mostly will no longer activate after your subscription has expired.
• you cannot claim new keys once your subscription expires.

MSDN is an amazing resource and very reasonably priced. The best thing is to regard it as a lifetime subscription. Having said that, we usually make sure we claim a few extra keys before we roll over each subscription. Some work, some don't.

Answer 2

Afraid the product keys also died with the subscription.

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