VS 2017 image license expired.
We're seeing test failures with message saying VS 2017 license needs to be renewed.
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.0.28307.1000.
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved.
The license for Visual Studio has expired.
Your license for this product is expired and could not be refreshed. Please connect to the internet to continue to use this product.
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Support Staff 1 Posted by Owen McDonnell on 01 Apr, 2025 05:51 AM
This should be fixed now. Let us know if the problem persists.
2 Posted by Bill Deegan on 03 Apr, 2025 05:46 PM
Owen,
Still failing as of 14 hours ago..
Did the changes not propagate?
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/SCons/scons/builds/51817587/job/qun5wonw5dqb0knx?fullLog=true
Thanks,
Bill
Support Staff 3 Posted by Owen McDonnell on 03 Apr, 2025 09:33 PM
Sorry, the images were fixed but not deployed. It should be working within the next hour, if not let us know.
4 Posted by Bill Deegan on 03 Apr, 2025 09:39 PM
Owen,
No worries.. The reason I asked about them being deployed is because I've
made the same mistake (a few times) myself. :)
Thanks for the great service!
It's a big help to our open source project.
-Bill
Support Staff 5 Posted by Owen McDonnell on 04 Apr, 2025 12:35 AM
No problem, please do confirm with us when you get a chance that the issue is resolved.
6 Posted by Bill Deegan on 05 Apr, 2025 08:31 PM
Owen,
Looks like there's now an issue with VS2015
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/SCons/scons/builds/51833746/job/fixdtefcyx9w0k0n?fullLog=true
-Bill
Support Staff 7 Posted by Owen McDonnell on 06 Apr, 2025 05:54 AM
Yes, I was waiting for confirmation that the VS2017 image is ok before I deploy the updated VS2015 image.
8 Posted by bill+scons on 21 May, 2025 05:23 PM
Sorry for the delay the VS2017 image is fine, please update the VS2015 when you get a chance.
Thanks for your help!
Support Staff 9 Posted by Owen McDonnell on 21 May, 2025 06:07 PM
That image was deployed some time ago. I just checked and there should be no blockage on using Visual studio on that image.
Did you perhaps update your config to use
Previous Visual Studio 2015, which is still pointing to previous image with expired licence?10 Posted by bill+scons on 22 May, 2025 09:41 PM
Here's the images we're using presently.
- Visual Studio 2017 - Visual Studio 2019 - Visual Studio 2022
The vs2015 failure is on Visual Studio 2017 image:
720/1305 ( 55.17%) C:\Python37\python.exe test\MSVS\vs-14.0-exec.py
C:\projects\scons\scripts\scons.py returned 1
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Version 14.0.25420.1.
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved.
The license for Visual Studio has expired.
Your license for this product is expired and could not be refreshed. Please connect to the internet to continue to use this product.
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FAILED test of C:\projects\scons\scripts\scons.py
at line 753 of C:\projects\scons\testing\framework\TestCommon.py (_complete) from line 867 of C:\projects\scons\testing\framework\TestCommon.py (run) from line 485 of C:\projects\scons\testing\framework\TestSCons.py (run) from line 941 of C:\projects\scons\testing\framework\TestSConsMSVS.py (run) from line 104 of test\MSVS\vs-14.0-exec.py Test execution time: 8.7 seconds
Is it possible to renew the vs2015 license in the vs2017 image?
Support Staff 11 Posted by Owen McDonnell on 27 May, 2025 05:48 PM
This should be fixed now. Let us know if not.
Feodor Fitsner closed this discussion on 27 Jul, 2025 09:01 PM.