Forms shut down unexpectedly on 7.19 and we had to replace the license file in the ProgramData folder by downloading a new one from Directory Server.
Inside of the original file we found an expiration date
Why would there be an expiration date in this file causing the system to go offline?
Their Directory Server says that it does not expire until next year and it is renewed every year. They never had a lapse in payment or service so it is unusual that a primary business service would be shut off.
In Directory Server the last renewal was done about a month ago well before the due date of 7/19. It was not that they had not renewed their master license.