Re: Licensing errors after following MS Articles
- From: "Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]" <les.connor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:30:38 -0500
Have you seen this one? It appears to indicate that you have to re-create
the cpl.cfg file yourself.
How to reset the License Logging service in Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;883399
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Les Connor [SBS Community Member - SBS MVP]
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"Bryan L" <blinton.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ODfcJSMfFHA.1048@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Many thanks to Brandy Nee and Les Connor for much help already given with
> this problem.
>
> First, my setup:
>
> One SBS 2003 server
> Four member servers
> One file server running 2000 Server
> One SQL Server running 2000 Server
> Two file servers running Server 2003 Std
>
> While attempting to clean up and properly configure licensing in my SBS
> 2003 network, I followed the instructions in article 153140
> (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;153140), "How to
> reset License Manager Information". This article instructed me to delete
> or rename several files, one of them being C:\Winnt\System32\cpl.cfg,
> which contains all the license purchase history information. I chose to
> rename rather than delete this file.
>
> After completing the instructions in that article, I moved on to article
> 327644 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;327644),
> "How to configure licensing on an additional Windows server in an SBS
> network. Following the instructions in that article under the heading
> "Configure client access licenses on an additional server" results in the
> following error message when I attempt to complete step 5:
>
> LICENSE SYSTEM
> You do not have the appropriate access privileges to complete this
> operation.
>
> I finally (after two days) found LicenseService event 205 in my
> application log. TechNet has this to say about it:
>
> "205 The purchased license data could not be
> saved to CPL.CFG.The data is the error code.
>
> "Indicates that changes to license purchase information
> could not be saved. The License Logging service may
> be able to successfully save the data later. If not, the data
> will be lost. Data replicated from other servers will be
> received again during the next replication. Data entered
> on this server will have to be re-entered."
>
> Over the 5 days I've been messing with this, a new CPL.CFG file has never
> been created to replace the renamed original. So this morning, on a
> hunch, I renamed the original file back to CPL.CFG and then tried again to
> configure licensing according to article 327644. It worked perfectly and
> no error message was displayed. The Licensing snap-in shows my entire
> original purchase history, plus the new entry just created by following
> the instructions in 327644.
>
> What I'd like to accomplish is to start with a clean purchase history and
> configure licensing on my servers from scratch. Apparently, deleting the
> CPL.CFG file per the instructions in article 153140 isn't always the way
> to go, since SBS 2003 (or at least, MY SBS 2003) won't or can't recreate
> the file for some reason. I triple-checked group membership and
> permissions on my member servers; the Domain Admins group is a member of
> the local Administrators group on all member servers.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bryan
>
.
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