Terminal Server Licensing - Crash - Grace Period?

[Vanessa]

The environment. W2K DC and W2K Terminal Servers with NT
4.0 resource domains. We're going to put LS in our NT
4.0 resource domains so that our W2K TS will find the
LS. (Our W2K TS's must reside in the resource domains
because of SMS.)

Will someone point me in the right direction to find
documentation from Microsoft that says:

1. amount of time a windows 2000 terminal server will
accept connections before it must find a licensing server
or it starts refusing connections. (90 days - We've
found lots of documentation on this.)

2. This is the importatn question. You have a LS in
your NT 4.0 domain with a reg hack that points the Win2K
TS to the LS. What happens if the LS goes down - after
the 90 server grace period? How much time do you have to
get the LS back online before your users start to have
problems?

 

[Matthew Harris [MVP]]

-----Original Message-----
The environment. W2K DC and W2K Terminal Servers with NT
4.0 resource domains. We're going to put LS in our NT
4.0 resource domains so that our W2K TS will find the
LS. (Our W2K TS's must reside in the resource domains
because of SMS.)

Will someone point me in the right direction to find
documentation from Microsoft that says:

1. amount of time a windows 2000 terminal server will
accept connections before it must find a licensing server
or it starts refusing connections. (90 days - We've
found lots of documentation on this.)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;287687&Product=win2000

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
US;294655

2. This is the importatn question. You have a LS in
your NT 4.0 domain with a reg hack that points the Win2K
TS to the LS. What happens if the LS goes down - after
the 90 server grace period? How much time do you have to
get the LS back online before your users start to have
problems?

If the license server goes down, then those clients who
already have a license won't be affected. Those clients
who don't have a permanent license will probably have some
problems though. To prevent problems, you may want to
have an alternate license server running on your network
that is activated, but doesn't have any licenses
installed. That way, it can issue temporary licenses
which are good for 90 days, which should be enough time to
get your real license server back up.

-M