From: "Geo." 

When you restarted the license service (assuming you were still blocking
internet access) did it return to full function mode?

Geo.

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
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>I know, it was just a test case for me to verify that.  I'm much more
>interested in it happening when for other reasons.
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> Bob Comer
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> "Geo."  wrote in message
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>> If you go to services view where it shows the description in the left
>> hand side of the service list, click on license service, you will see
>> that description.
>>
>> I know the license service being disabled will trigger reduced function
>> mode, that's how I confirmed what I was seeing was reduced function mode
>> but I was seeing it with the license service started not disabled.
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
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>>> Make that disabling the licensing service then rebooting triggers
>>> reduced functionality, but there's nowhere it says anything like that...
>>>
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>>> Bob Comer
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>>> "Geo."  wrote in message
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>>>> If after 3 days solitaire still starts up fine, try
stopping and then
>>>> right away starting the software license service, maybe
that will be an
>>>> easy way to trigger the system to go looking for a phone.
If it does at
>>>> least we'll know that it can be triggered and then keep looking even
>>>> though the trigger has been corrected.
>>>>
>>>> Geo.
>>>>
>>>> "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
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>>>>> No reduced functionality here yet on either of my test
case VM's...
>>>>>
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>>>>> Bob Comer
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Geo."  wrote in message
>>>>> news:459af278$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>> "Mike N." 
wrote in message
>>>>>> news:b1ikp2h9n8lqb9sdfv8pjbisah8c4ligqf{at}4ax.com...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  The thinking was undoubtably, "big corp
whose firewall denies all
>>>>>>> by
>>>>>>> default will use an internal activation
server".    They forget
>>>>>>> "small shop
>>>>>>> with decent firewall policy" has no
default connectivity either.   I
>>>>>>> can
>>>>>>> think of several of these that would fall
afoul of Geo's test and
>>>>>>> degrade
>>>>>>> to 19" LCD monitor that just displays a
spinning doughnut.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At this point it's still unclear what triggered the reduced
>>>>>> functionality. It's clear what cured it but the
cause could have been
>>>>>> the routes or could have been any of or any
combination of the other
>>>>>> things I did since installing. Until I get time or
one of the other
>>>>>> folks can reproduce it I can't say for sure.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My guess is it works similar to the reactivation
thing where if you
>>>>>> change a video card it doesn't go off but if you
change a videocard,
>>>>>> a mouse, and add a ram stick it does go off. This
could also have
>>>>>> been triggered by a combination of events, hard to
say right now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Geo.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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