Visual studio professional 2015 Product Key

Question

_{Monday, October 24, 2016 6:41 AM}

Problem Description:

Our company bougth a subscription for visual studio 2015 and we only got 1 key, and we thougth all of us where going to use it. Then we called and asked and this key was only for 1 person.

I had already inserted the product key so 2 of us has the same key. Now we have bougth new product key's and i want to insert my new product key and it is not possible?
What to do? i have a new key that i want to change to. 

Havent you programmed anything to prevent this?

Cant change my product key somewhere?

All replies (1)

_{Monday, October 24, 2016 10:01 AM}

Hi Adam Gustafsson,

Welcome to MSDN forum.

I recommand you could take the following steps to change the product Key:

1.Discover what license key Visual Studio was looking for in the registry with Process Monitor.

2.Completely uninstall Visual Studio 2015 (save CurrentSettings.vssettings first), use /uninstall /force to uninstall it.

3.Delete the license key from the registry by hand in regedit.

4. Install Visual Studio using the publicly available web installer (which doesn't have any baked-in license key -- it installs a 30-day trial).

5. Enter the new product key.

6. Restore settings by importing the backup which is made of CurrentSettings.vssettings.

You could download Process Monitor from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

You can verify this by searching the “Licenses” or “License” keywords from the output. If you find such key, you can back up the registry key first and then delete it.

For license issue, you can call 1-800-426-9400, Monday through Friday, 6:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. (Pacific Time) to speak directly to a Microsoft licensing specialist, and you can get more detail information from there.

Best regards,

Joyce

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