Running Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 2012 R2, and suddenly a popup came saying "Your license has gone stale and must be updated"
Clicking the update licence gave an error download of licence failed. Sign out and sign in also did not work. The only other option was to exit visual studio, and that's not very helpful at all.
After numerous google searches, figured that the issue is about UAC. To solve, I followed the below steps
1. Go to Control Panel
2. Search UAC
3. Click on Action Center, Change User Account Control Settings
4. Make a note of the current slider setting
5. Turn the slider all the way to the bottom (ie; Never notify option) and click OK
6. Go back to visual studio and check the update license, and voila, the licence updated
7. Revert UAC original setting by going back to UAC and apply the original value (Step 4)
Clicking the update licence gave an error download of licence failed. Sign out and sign in also did not work. The only other option was to exit visual studio, and that's not very helpful at all.
After numerous google searches, figured that the issue is about UAC. To solve, I followed the below steps
1. Go to Control Panel
2. Search UAC
3. Click on Action Center, Change User Account Control Settings
4. Make a note of the current slider setting
5. Turn the slider all the way to the bottom (ie; Never notify option) and click OK
6. Go back to visual studio and check the update license, and voila, the licence updated
7. Revert UAC original setting by going back to UAC and apply the original value (Step 4)
