Can anyone tell me what, exactly, will happen to a workstation that has used up its 30 days of grace and is now in 'Notification mode'? Other than nagging the user, what are the other side effects? I read on another forum thatthe machine will reboot every 2 hours but I'm skeptical of this one.Before you say 'just don't let it happen', I'll say we're using Deep Freeze and did not have our usual spring thawed maintenance period to allow our machines to reactivate and now many of them are in the 30 day grace, some will be entering theNotification mode in a few days and I need to know if I need to take steps to activate them, or just let our users live with the nag screens for another month.Thanks for the help. I set the BIOS date / time ahead on a laptop here that I'm testing with so that it is in Notification Mode, I've noticed more frequent sys-tray popups saying 'This copy of Windows is not genuine' but it has not shut down after sitting for 3 hours now.We have 1500 desktops / laptops, I need to weigh the impact of our users being nagged versus my time fixing that many machines. This is only a problem because we use Deep Freeze, any other enterprise not using Deep Freeze wouldn't have this problem.That's why I ask what else will happen besides the nag messages. If that is the worst that will happen, I can wait the 30 days until school is out for the summer and then proceed with my usual summer process of reimaging all desktops / laptops.
Windows 7 Trial Period
Hi,I'm getting the following message when I try to activate my copy of Windows 7 Home Premium.The activation period has expired. (0xC004F009)This is not surprising as I bought the software and installed it in March but only started to use the machine I had installed it to a couple of days ago.I've tried activating by phone but that doesn't work.I have investigated and it would appear that the producd id is not a genuine one, at least that is what I'm being told.
However I don't know if thats because the productID I am using is not genuine OR the product ID has been flagged with microsoftas expired because of the 30 day expiry issue and that it was genuine before. I need to know this for sure before I go back to the supplier of the software.Can anyone help?Thanks. Your Windows Product ID: 00359- 2-86901Lately there have been several reports of instances of blocked MSDN keys packaged with legitimate looking media.