for those of you not using bisf, do you manually delete the rds grace period registry key for non-persistent gold images?

How is the client managing windows updates? If done monthly, then a new image resets the grace period.

Only in my lab environment where the license server is on an insider build and my rds machine is not. Better to setup a domain license server and deploy a gpo to set that. Otherwise if they get audited it can be very pricey.

the problem is the gold image is not domain joined so it doesn't know where the RDS server is, and workgroup joined machines can't get user cals either. They have a license server and CALs so not worried about getting audited as it's in compliance, although I do see a lot people bring this up as a reason not to do it. I can't find anything from MS that says it puts you out of compliance.

Are you able to login to the build vm? Then it should be doable: https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000193714/how-to-reset-the-windows-remote-desktop-services-licensing-grace-period Otherwise, I would recommend building the image monthly(using e.g. MDT, packer), snapshot and publish to catalog.

yeah that's what we will end up doing