Windows 2008 - what happens if it does not activate in the grace period?

Hello

I know it is a forum for Vista but everything on the web seems to tell me that way...

In our Organization, we plan on using KMS for activation of our Windows 2008 servers (we have only 2 of them at the moment). However what I read you need at least 5 physical servers Windows 2008 (not the Virtual Machines) before they will start to activate.

My question is: what will happen to the Windows 2008 servers if they do not activate the grace period?

From what I can tell they should keep normal operation (reduced functionality Mode has apparently been removed from Windows 2008) but will be many notifications to activate me now whenever you log on to the server.

Thanks for your help.

http://www.Microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/product-activation.aspx

Read the MS link above. Mick Murphy

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