Licensing error -3 (Your license for this product has expired)

Symptoms

Your trial fails with the error message Your license for this product has expired (Error code -3).

Cause

The trial has been activated before on the same machine.

Solution

Try to manually activate the trial, if it has not been activated before on the same machine.

Note: The 30 days trial period applies for the entire life of a major version (e.g: V24).

It cannot be activated anymore on the same hostid for the entire life of a major version.