Running Licensing for 2000 and 2003 concurrently

[Janice Burnham]

I have two questions:
1. If I am running terminal services licensing for Windows 2000, will
licensing be upgraded when I upgrade the licensing server to server 2003 and
will it still work with clients trying to connect to a Windows 2000 terminal
server or will I have to move licensing to another 2000 domain controller
before I upgrade that server?

2. Can a Windows 2000 terminal licensing server run concurrently with a
Windows 2003 terminal licensing server with the Win2000 licensing server
giving out licenses for clients connecting to a Win2000 term server and the
Win2003 licensing server giving out licenses for clients connecting to a
Win2003 term server? At that point we would be running in a Windows2003
active directory mixed mode with some Windows2000 domain controllers.

 

[Matthew Harris [MVp]]

answers are inline...

-----Original Message-----
I have two questions:
1. If I am running terminal services licensing for Windows 2000, will
licensing be upgraded when I upgrade the licensing server to server 2003 and
will it still work with clients trying to connect to a Windows 2000 terminal
server or will I have to move licensing to another 2000 domain controller
before I upgrade that server?

My thought is that you'll need a Windows 2000 license
server and a Windows 2003 license server running on your
network at the same time. TS clients on the Windows 2003
server will look to the 2003 license server and TS clients
on the Windows 2000 Server will look to the 2000 license
server.

2. Can a Windows 2000 terminal licensing server run concurrently with a
Windows 2003 terminal licensing server with the Win2000 licensing server
giving out licenses for clients connecting to a Win2000 term server and the
Win2003 licensing server giving out licenses for clients connecting to a
Win2003 term server? At that point we would be running in a Windows2003
active directory mixed mode with some Windows2000 domain

controllers.

The should be able to run concurrently on the same
network.

-M