1Dimitri / VSCELicense

PowerShell module + MSI to (automatically) reset Visual Studio Community Edition license expiration date

📜 VSCELicense

• Details
• Usage
• Examples
  • Get Visual Studio Community Edition license expiration date
  • Set Visual Studio Community Edition license expiration date
    • Set license expiration date to 31 day from now
    • Set license expiration date to 10 days from now
    • Set license expiration date to current date
• Changelog

Details

PowerShell module to get and set Visual Studio Community Edition license expiration date in the registry. Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019 are supported.

Based on Dmitrii's answer to this question: Visual Studio Community 2017 is a 30 day trial?

Forked version benefits

This forked version includes the source to build MSI Installers that will:

1. Install the module in the well-known Powershell path using embedded files for non-connected environments
2. Create a scheduled task to run it every night as SYSTEM.

The MSI Installers are built using the WixSharp project, the task scheduler manipulation is made using TaskScheduler, a .NET Wrapper for the Task Scheduler COM Interface.

Simplified Forked version usage

1. Run the MSI based on the platform of your choice found in Releases
2. A task, visible as administrator, is created in the 'VSCELicense' folder of the local scheduled tasks library. Your can change its schedule if needed, based on operational constraints

Original Module Usage

1. Download/clone this repository

2. Run PowerShell.exe as Administrator

3. Import module:

   Assuming that you cloned/downloaded this repo to C:\VSCELicense

   Import-Module -Name 'C:\VSCELicense\VSCELicense.psd1'

   If you get execution of scripts is disabled on this system message, you can temporarily override PowerShell execution policy by running

   Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process

   See PowerShell documentation for more details:

   • Set-ExecutionPolicy
   • About Execution Policies

Examples

Get Visual Studio Community Edition license expiration date

All supported versions of Visual Studio.

Get-VSCELicenseExpirationDate

One specific version of Visual Studio.

Get-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -Version 2017

Multiple versions of Visual Studio.

Get-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -Version 2019, 2017

Set Visual Studio Community Edition license expiration date

⚡ Writing to the Visual Studio license registry key requires elevated permissions. Run PowerShell as administrator for examples to work.

Set license expiration date to 31 day from now

All supported versions of Visual Studio.

Set-VSCELicenseExpirationDate

One specific version of Visual Studio.

Set-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -Version 2017

Multiple versions of Visual Studio.

Set-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -Version 2019, 2017

Set license expiration date to 10 days from now

All supported versions of Visual Studio.

Set-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -AddDays 10

One specific version of Visual Studio.

Set-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -Version 2017 -AddDays 10

Multiple versions of Visual Studio.

Set-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -Version 2019, 2017 -AddDays 10

Set license expiration date to current date

⚡ This will immediately expire your license and you wouldn't be able to use Visual Studio.

All supported versions of Visual Studio.

Set-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -AddDays 0

One specific version of Visual Studio.

Set-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -Version 2017 -AddDays 0

Multiple versions of Visual Studio.

Set-VSCELicenseExpirationDate -Version 2019, 2017 -AddDays 0

Changelog

• 0.0.8 - Make it easier to use by not requiring to specify Visual Studio version
• 0.0.7 - Added 2015 support (@GDI123)
• 0.0.6 - Load System.Security assembly if module was imported without manifest
• 0.0.5 - Duh, actually set PowerShellVersion = '3.0' in manifest
• 0.0.4 - Support downlevel PowerShell versions, starting from 3.0
• 0.0.3 - Fixed manifest to avoid execution errors under fresh PowerShell environments (@1Dimitri)
• 0.0.2 - Added 2019 support
• 0.0.1 - Initial commit, 2017 support