What is Licensing Site Settings?

[Hank Arnold (MVP)]

A long time ago, I created a second site (Kingston) under Sites &
Services to accommodate the Kingston location in the event I wanted to
add or move servers there. We currently have 3 DCs (HOSPICEDC,
HOSPICEDC3 & HOSPICEDC4). My plan has been to move one of them (DC3) to
Kingston to help speed up logons. I was just checking the (empty)
Kingston site and checking the setting vs. the Default-First Site (Hyde
Park). I noticed something that has me concerned.

Under the Licensing Site Settings, it is showing the "EXCHANGE" server.
This is obviously a leftover from the original setup by a "consultant"
(before I started) of the domain where that server was the only DC (with
all the FSMOs) and also the TS Licensing server. This has since been
changed. That server is neither a DC nor a TS Licensing server.

I'm not sure what I should be changing it to. It's not clear to me what
the "Licensing Server" is. THE HOSPICEDC server is the TS licensing
server and has all the FSMOs.

Can you help clarify it for me?

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Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services

 

[Meinolf Weber]

Hello Hank,

If you are using the License logging service in your domain to monitor your
licensing, which never worked as expected, you can set/find here the server,
by default the first installed domain DC in the site, which handles the licensing
database for the site. I assume you are not using it.

Additional have a look here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/273475

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windo...7a8e-412c-87f4-b81d8e89dfaf1033.mspx?mfr=true

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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