Terminal server questions

[Guest]

Hello,

I hope someone can help me with the following problems/questions:

I'm running here with a terminal server (w2k) with ts licensing activated on
it. Because there was a request to work more with ts, we had to install a
second ts server. I've installed ts and ts licensing on the second ts server
(also w2k), without activating the licensing server. Because all of our TS
CAL's are installed on the first ts server, I have to give on the second
server a license server via connect in ts licensing.
The problem is: When new users make a connection to the new ts server, the
ts server makes a temporary license and don't pick a license from my first
server. Because these licenses are going to expire in a few day's, I want to
know how these users pick a excisting license from my first server.
Another question:
Some licenses (ts call's) on my first server are not (anymore)in use. How do
I have to give these licenses free for other users?
Do I have to pay when I want to activate my ts license server on my second
ts server?

Please help me..

Thanks..

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

There's no real need to install TS Licensing on the second
Terminal Server, other than for redundancy.
What you have to do is to point the second Terminal Server to the
TS Licensing Service on the first TS, by hardcoding its name in
the registry of the second TS.
And no, you don't pay anything for activation a LS.

239107 - Establishing Preferred Windows 2000 Terminal Services
License Server
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=239107

About your old, now unused licenses on your first server:

If the TS CALs where installed on the TS Licensing server *after*
installing SP3 (or at least SP3 + the post-SP3 Licensing
Enhancement hotfix), all TS CALs have an expiration date. That
means that a license which has not been used (a PC has not made a
connection to the TS) during a period of 52-89 days, will
automatically be returned to the Licensing server and become
available for another client. In the meantime, the new client will
receive a temporary license, which is valid for 90 days. So before
the temporary license on the new client expires, the old license
becomes available again.

If you find that new clients temporary licenses expire before any
old licenses are returned to the LS, it simply means that you
have, at least during some time, connected more clients than you
have TS CALs and you need to buy more.

If you installed the TS CALs *before* the LS got SP3, then the
licenses have no expiration date and are permanently issued to a
specific client. You will have to phone the Clearinghouse to get
these licenses re-issued.

For more information, see:

Windows 2000 Terminal Services Licensing FAQ
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/howtobuy/pricing/tsfaq
..asp

 

[Guest]

Thanks a lot...
My problem is solved!!

There's no real need to install TS Licensing on the second
Terminal Server, other than for redundancy.
What you have to do is to point the second Terminal Server to the
TS Licensing Service on the first TS, by hardcoding its name in
the registry of the second TS.
And no, you don't pay anything for activation a LS.

239107 - Establishing Preferred Windows 2000 Terminal Services
License Server
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=239107

About your old, now unused licenses on your first server:

If the TS CALs where installed on the TS Licensing server *after*
installing SP3 (or at least SP3 + the post-SP3 Licensing
Enhancement hotfix), all TS CALs have an expiration date. That
means that a license which has not been used (a PC has not made a
connection to the TS) during a period of 52-89 days, will
automatically be returned to the Licensing server and become
available for another client. In the meantime, the new client will
receive a temporary license, which is valid for 90 days. So before
the temporary license on the new client expires, the old license
becomes available again.

If you find that new clients temporary licenses expire before any
old licenses are returned to the LS, it simply means that you
have, at least during some time, connected more clients than you
have TS CALs and you need to buy more.

If you installed the TS CALs *before* the LS got SP3, then the
licenses have no expiration date and are permanently issued to a
specific client. You will have to phone the Clearinghouse to get
these licenses re-issued.

For more information, see:

Windows 2000 Terminal Services Licensing FAQ
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/howtobuy/pricing/tsfaq
..asp

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