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    • 08 Feb 2023
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    Bypass Remote Desktop Licensing Lockout

    • Updated on 08 Feb 2023
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    If you have installed Remote Desktop Services via the Roles within Windows, and not applied a Licensing Server, or configured the RDS server host, generally after 120 days it will lock you out of the server.

    In order to bypass this, you are able to however invoke MSTSC (Microsoft Terminal Services Client) with the /admin flag in order to bypass it, and login via a full admin session.

    To perform this, you would open a run prompt and type in mtsc /admin:

    Once this has been invoked with the Admin privileges, you will be able to then login as you normally would, and bypass the lockout.

    You can then go ahead and either remove, or configure Remote Desktop Services to resolve the issue for normal access.

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