120 day license

[Guest]

We had two Win 2000 servers. We now have one Win 2003 server. We got the
2003 in September 2004. We just received a message when using terminal
server that says, your 120 day license is up. I am confused. I thought that
this was part of the server??? How does the license run out and what exactly
is the license for when we were able to do this on our Win 2000 server
previously??

I am in a lab environment in a school. We have 32 Win XP computers
networked to our Win 2003 server. We want to be able to access the server
from the Win XP computers like we were able to do previously.

 

[Guest]

Three things:

1. Your 2003 TS can NOT communicate with a 2000 TSLS (Terminal Services
Licensing Service). You MUST setup a 2003 TSLS to manage TSCALs when users
logon to a 2003 TS. This 2003 Server can be a 2003 DC, 2003 Member Server,
or one of the 2003 TS. If it's not a DC, you'll need to edit the registry to
point the TS to the server hosting the TSLS.

2. 2000 & XP Pro Clients logging onto a 2003 TS are not issued a free TSCAL
from the 2003 TSLS built-in pool, as in 2000. Every client, regardless of
OS, requires a 2003 TSCAL.

3. If you had the XP Pro licenses before April 2003, you can get free
transition TSCALs from Microsoft. If you got them after 04/2003, you have to
purchase new 2003 TSCALs. Luckily Educational licenses are about 1/4 the
price of normal licenses.

http://www.workthin.com/tsls2k3.htm

Patrick Rouse
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
http://www.workthin.com

 

[Guest]

How do you get transition licenses? I have XP Pro from before April 2003.
Also, what exactly is a transition license?

 

[Guest]

The link I sent had the information on it, but here's the direct URL to
MSFT's site:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/howtobuy/licensing/tscaltransfaq.mspx

Basically they give you a 2003 TSCAL (per-user or per device) for each XP
Pro license you owned before 04/2003.