Using new/different client took another license!

[Greg]

We have twenty terminal services licenses we bought from
microsoft. I had one user who was on an NT box and was
issued a terminal services license. Then she was having
a strange problem where she wasn't being allowed access
to the terminal server. I posted a message here, and a
MS rep replied telling me to download the latest client
(which is actually a remote desktop client). I did this,
and instantly, the user had full terminal services access
again. That is great. However, I just went into
Terminal Services Licensing casually, and this machine
was issued a second license when I started to use the
updated client. Ugh. These are $80 a pop and I can't
afford to use them up unneccessarily.
Any help anyone can provide would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Greg

 

[Matthew Harris [MVP]]

If the TSCAL license was issued to the client after you
installed SP3 (or SP4) then the unused TSCAL will be
returned to the free license pool in around 90 days after
its last use.

Check out these links for more info:
support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;294655
support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;287687

-M