Re: SBS Licensing Problems

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I'm running a few different programs/utilities that created special user
accounts for use by the program. I posted an earlier question regarding
this which no one answered, so I'll repost here:

"Do Windows servers simply count the number of enabled user accounts in AD,
or do they monitor actual sytem usage to determine license compliance?

"We have 30 SBS CALs and 26 actual users of the system. However, over the
last year, due to employee turnover, several new user accounts have been
created and old accounts have not necessarily been disabled. Current and
old users, combined with a couple test user accounts I maintain for testing
and
troubleshooting purposes, and special-purpose user accounts created by a few
software products, gives a total of 37 enabled user accounts. Even
disabling user accounts for former employees would not reduce the total to
30.

"Could this be the cause of my 202 messages?"

Bryan


"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" <crisnospamhanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:uE9lx3zeFHA.584@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
What 3rd party software are you running??
Veritas??
Trend?
Don't forget that these products frequently create a user and take up a
cal....

You probably need at least 5 more cals

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"Bryan L" <blinton.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uhlKidzeFHA.3048@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I've gotten a regular 202 error in my eventlog for some time now, saying
that the product Windows Server is out of licenses. Between the 5 built-in
CALs and the 25 additional CALs we've purchased, I have 30 CALs. I have 26
users, about 30 workstations, and 4 member servers in addition to the SBS.
I've make sure all member servers are correctly configured with Per-Device
or Per-User licensing modes, and I've even tried to stop the license logging
service on the SBS, delete the three files related to licensing, and
re-enter the licenses. I have had two problems in trying to do this,
however:

1) Of the three files I'm supposed to delete (or rename, which is what I
did), only two of them are present on my system. C:\Winnt\System32\cpl.cfg
and C:\Winnt\System32\Lls\Llsuser.lls are both present and have been
renamed, but C:\Winnt\System32\Lls\Llsmap.lls doesn't exist.

2) No matter when or how I delete those files, stop or restart the License
Logging service, or how I refresh or mess with the Licensing snap-in on the
SBS, I cannot get the license info recorded in the Licensing snap-in to go
away. I'm trying to get rid of it completely so I can re-enter the license
information. Someone here suggested that the licensing info might have
gotten corrupted, and it's on their suggestion that I'm trying to purge the
old license info and start over.

Can anyone tell me a surefire way to dump all licensing information stored
in SBS so I can start over? If I'm compliant with Microsoft's licensing
requirements (and I'm open to ways to verify this), I want to get my SBS
network configured to eliminate these pesky licensing error messages.

Thanks,

Bryan


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