2003 user cal question

[Harry Hudini]

Hi,

I have purchased a few new users cals for our 2003 server which I want to
assign to specific users to ensure that they can *ALWAYS* get on. we used to
use device cals, but after someone logged on to the server from a 'net cafe
and the server assigned a device CAL to that machine, we have been a license
short.

MY question is, when we install the User cals, how do we determine which cal
is assigned to which user ? Is it that the first user that logs on (from a
machine that doesnt have a device cal) gets a User cal assigned to their
username, or can we actually say that *this* cal goes to *that* user ??

I have asked MS and got pushed around three depts, but no one could tell me
a clear answer.

Olly

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[Vera Noest [MVP]]

Per User TS CALs were build-in to the OS in a very late stage.
The 2003 TS Licensing server cannot handle them correctly, so
currently Per User CALs are unmanaged.
This means that when a TS server is set to accept User CALs it will
look to the license server to make sure that one is available but it
will not be decremented from the database.
It is your responsibility to have a valid User CAL for every user
that uses the terminal server.