Greetings, I have Exchange Server Enterprise 2003 but I did a virtualization of one of my exchange servers, every hour on the hour exactly, to shut down the Information Store,when I restarted the service but it always came with the following: Event Type: Error Event Source: MSExchangeIS Event Category: General Event ID: 1182 Date: 1/11/2012 Time: 3:50:18 PM User: N/A Computer: EX00003 Description: Thank you for your participation in the Microsoft Exchange Server beta program. Your license to use this beta version of the Microsoft Exchange Server software has expired. Contact Microsoft Corporation. I would like to point out that I did NOT install beta software on the original server. After the virtualization I have added this computer to the domain and I only changed the name and the SID of the server. can anyone help me with this? I was looking at:HKLM-Software-Microsoft-Windows-CurrentVersion-Uninstallan entry and i have an entry that beginning with 9161 Thank you for your help!!!! For more information, click http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.

On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:01:44 +0000, Luis Slash43 wrote: > > >Greetings, > >I have Exchange Server Enterprise 2003 but I did a virtualization of one of my exchange servers, every hour on the hour exactly, to shut down the Information Store,when I restarted the service but it always came with the following: > >Event Type: Error Event Source: MSExchangeIS Event Category: General Event ID: 1182 Date: 1/11/2012 Time: 3:50:18 PM User: N/A Computer: EX00003 Description: Thank you for your participation in the Microsoft Exchange Server beta program. Your license to use this beta version of the Microsoft Exchange Server software has expired. Contact Microsoft Corporation. > >I would like to point out that I did NOT install beta software on the original server. After the virtualization I have added this computer to the domain and I only changed the name and the SID of the server. can anyone help me with this? > >I was looking at:HKLM-Software-Microsoft-Windows-CurrentVersion-Uninstallan entry and i have an entry that beginning with 9161 > >Thank you for your help!!!! You can't change the name of the server. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

I suggest you contact Microsoft support directly. The license related problem is critical and it can only be active/unactive by the phone support baseed on my experience.

Hi, For the license related issue, please use the contact information in http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/contact-us.aspx. it might be the best place for seeking the answer. Just for your reference, you may reinstall the server from the installation medium.Fiona Liao TechNet Community Support

Thank you for your help