I love these errors where you are the person who gets the error and you are the person that you are supposed to go see about the error...I wanted to mention this issue and how to solve it.When I logged on as my ID which is in the admin group, I saw no problems regarding activation but when I logged on as a plain user account, I sometimes get an error saying Windows could not be activated and would soon go beyond the grace period. Upon checking the computer properties on my admin account, I indeed saw it was no longer activated apparently after I installed the integrated 2k8/SP2 RC even though it had been after the integrated 2k8/SP2 beta image.The issue was resolved by activating with the same key I had used earlier.DaveDave

Hi Dave, thanks for you sharing.