When you install IISxpress 2.1 on Windows Servers you select whether you want Community or Evaluation mode. If you later decide you selected the wrong license you have two options to change the license mode:
- Uninstall IISxpress 2.1 and then install it again selecting the correct license mode
- Modify a registry entry and then restart the IISxpress compression service
You can probably figure out how to uninstall yourself so I wont explain how to do that here.
The second option is more interesting, if you don't want to uninstall then you pretty much have to follow the instructions here to change the license mode.
- Stop the IISxpress system service. You can do this from the IISxpress Status Window; select the Configuration tab, then select General from the strip on the right and click the Stop button. You can also use the Windows Service Manager or alternately open a command prompt and type: net stop IISxpress
- Start RegEdit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ripcord Software\IISxpressServer
- You should now see a registry entry on the right of the main window called LicenseMode. Double click on this item.
- To change the licence mode to Community enter the number 1 and click OK. To change the licence mode to Evaluation change the number to 2.
- Exit from RegEdit and then restart the IISxpress service via the IISxpress Status Window, the Service Manager or by typing: net start IISxpress
- You should now have a different license mode.
