Why is a fresh Enterprise Evaluation installation license expired?
Hello, normally whenever I would install the Windows Enterprise Evaluation it would automatically activate the 90-day license. This has changed however as this time I did a fresh install (already tried both Windows 10 and 11) I get the Windows License is expired message in the bottom-right corner of the screen. The System->Activation menu says We can't activate Windows on this device right now. You can try activating again later or ... Error code: 0xC004C032. When I run slmgr /ato to activate I sometimes (not sure what the reason for change is - maybe this changed after I tried to change the product key to what I found supposedly is a "generic Enterprise key for recovery") get the same error as above - 0xC004C032 (running slui on that returns The activation server reported that new time based activation is not available) or 0x80072F8F (A security error occured). I read that syncing the date/time might be an issue but as far as I can tell its synced correctly with time.windows.com Any ideas about what the issue could be? Or has something changed in how activation works for evaluation distributions? Any input is appreciated Thanks
Windows 10 90-day Evaluation on Public Cloud
Hi Everyone, I'm wondering if I can, without breaking any licensing, download 90-days Windows 10 Evaluation and deploy it as a VM on a Public Cloud Infrastructure (for example Google Cloud or AWS) ? Only as a Proof of Concept, with no production what-so-ever. VM would be running less than 1 day, after that it would be destroyed. The end-goal would be to exercise such operation + create an step-by-step tutorial of how to deploy OS by bringing your own ISO file.