Licensing concerns...

[Jonathan Telep]

I've got a couple of Win2K servers running AD that keep
running out of licenses and I don't understand why. I
went in yesterday and cleaned out (deleted/revoked) a
bunch of licenses that were being used by old domain users
that no longer exist and when I went in this morning to
check the server, they were all back again! Why would the
server issue licenses to users that no longer exist within
the domain to which they're referred if I removed them
from the license manager? Is there a way to instruct the
server to expire/revoke licenses from users who haven't
used them in the past 24 hours?

The problem I have is that one of the servers used to be a
domain controller for other domains. It's the users and
the domains to which they used to be part of that keep
coming back and using all of the licenses I just freed
up. Why is that? Why would the server issue licenses to
users who no longer exist and how can I stop this from
happening?

Both of the servers are sitting in the same domain (and
ONLY that domain) right now. There aren't any other
domains they need to be concerned about. They both sit in
a small LAN of about maybe 25 users and I know I have
purchased over 30 CAL's so I should be fine.

Someone please Help!!

Thanks,

Jon

 

[Danny Sanders]

Stop and disable the license logging service on all servers. It does not
work as expected and is only there to "help" the admin. Keep track of your
licenses manually.
If ever audited you are assumed to be in per seat mode

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

 

[Ron Lounsbury]

Danny
Be careful doing this, we tried that on one of our servers and found
that Crystal Reports lost its key and stopped working. (This was fun to
trace since the initial symptom was that IIS stopped working - we normally
only use CR on that server to serve web reports.)

Ron Lounsbury