Show-WindowsDeveloperLicenseRegistration : A quota was exceeded.

Question

I got the message that my developer license was not valid anymore on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. With the powershell cmdlet Show-WindowsDeveloperLicenseRegistration I should be able to renew it, but unfortunately I got the following message 'Show-WindowsDeveloperLicenseRegistration : A quota was exceeded.'

Restarting the machine, or uninstall existing license did not help. What to do?

Thanks

Ronald

Answer 1

Even after Windows Update or use a different account does not help. Event viewer is giving me the following event:

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">

- <System>

  <Provider Name="Microsoft-WS-Licensing" Guid="{ED76D77F-7FB5-4EE4-8268-EE46212CB2D3}" />

  <EventID>258</EventID>

  <Version>0</Version>

  <Level>2</Level>

  <Task>0</Task>

  <Opcode>0</Opcode>

  <Keywords>0x2000000000000001</Keywords>

  <TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-05-02T14:36:32.474039100Z" />

  <EventRecordID>690</EventRecordID>

  <Correlation ActivityID="{C06F825B-286B-0000-F882-6FC06B28CD01}" />

  <Execution ProcessID="4008" ThreadID="5892" />

  <Channel>Microsoft-WS-Licensing/Admin</Channel>

  <Computer>DevPC</Computer>

  <Security UserID="S-1-5-21-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" />

  </System>

- <EventData>

  <Data Name="ErrorString">A quota was exceeded.</Data>

  <Data Name="HRESULT">2151481352</Data>

  </EventData>

  </Event>

Answer 2

The only 'solution' I could find was to re-install Windows8CP. Now it works again.