TS Licensing

[saravanan]

In the TS licensing program windows for W2k, there are 3
columns Issued to, issued on and expires on. Some clients
have expire dates. Does is mean that those clients are on
temp license for 90 days and after the expire date, the
license will be permanently assigned to those client??

Next is , some clients do not have expire dates. Does it
mean that for those clients, they have already acquired
permenant TS licenses?? And if I want to revoke the
permenant licenses from those client, I would have to call
MS clearing house??

Thanks

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

The expiration date means that the clients have received a
permanent license. Those will expire after 52-89 days. A week
prior to the expiration date, the client will renew the license
automatically when it connects to the TS, and get a new expiration
date. If the client does not connect to the TS, the licenbse will
be returned to the license pool on the LS and become available for
another client.
These licenses were installed when the TS and LS were running SP3
or higher.

Licenses without an expiration date are permanently issued to a
client, and you'll have to call the Clearinghouse to get them re-
issued if the client is no longer in use.
Those licenses have been installed before the TS and LS were
running SP3.

 

[saravanan]

Must both the TS & LS be on SP 3 and above??

Situation :
One W2K LS server actively servicing TS client. LS server
crashed and needs to be reinstalled. TS CAL license
reissued on the LS server ( after contacting Microsoft).
If the clients reconnect, will the LS issue new licenses
since is was reinstalled and will it override the previous
license issuance on the client, or since the client
already acquired a TS CAL prior to LS server crashing,
will it retain the old TS CAL or renew TS CAL with the
reinstalled LS server.

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

Clients that already have a TS CAL will continue to use that.
The SP3 level on the TS and LS decide if the license get an
expiration date or not.

 

[saravanan]

Ok fine, I get that. The problem is that I have 60 TS CAL
installed but have more than 95 client connecting to TS
server. I only have one LS server. Therefore, I wonder
how the rest of the 35 clients are able to connect. Almost
all of them are win98 clients. So, I apologies if I'm
repeating again, but just to confirm, could it be that the
extra connection is due to clients using previous TS CAL
by the LS server which had its OS reinstalled as said
previously?? Therefore, if that's true, I now have a
surplus of 35 TS CAL connections which cannot be justified
looking from the number of TS CAL purchased against the
number of connections showed in TS Manager. So, I'm right
to say that to get back things in order, I may have to
delete the MSlicense registry key at all clients, call MS
to reissue TS CAL key and get the clients to login again
so that the license count at TS License Mgr will show the
correct number against number of connections at TS Mgr and
allow me to purchase additional TS CAL for the extra 35
clients. If this is the way, then I can justify the case
when I'm being audited. Thanks a lot

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

The extra connections can either run on temporary licenses or, as
you suspect, on their existing TS CAL, which they received from
the previous LS.
But if all of your licenses were installed after SP3, then they
will have an expiration date and eventually, you will have no more
then 60 TS CALs, allowing 60 connections.
You can enforce this situation by removing the locally stored
license information from the clients.
I *believe* that phoning the Clearinghouse and getting a license
pack re-issued means that it will show up in the Licensing Manager
as a separate license pack, which will mean that the TS CAL count
in the License Manager does not exactly match the number of
licenses you have bought. Having licenses re-issued means you need
to have some "paper administration" as well.
I would make sure that I got all my licenses re-issued and re-
installed on an SP3 level LS + TS, to make sure that all licenses
have an expiration date, and never have to phone the Clearinghouse
again.

 

[sarvanan]

Thanks Vera, your explaination was excellent. However,
your meaning of reissuing license. Do you mean that I have
to repeat the installation which is done at the TS
licensing Mgr. I do a right click at the current installed
TS CAL license and select repeat installation. Is that
right?? And I do it after TS & LS server are at SP3.

Thanks a million!

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

No, I mean that you use the phone method in the TS Licensing
Manager to find the telephone number of the Clearinghouse, and
then phone them to get any lost license pack re-issued.