Re: Terminal Server Licensing.
- From: "Simon Harpham" <SimonHarpham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:22:02 -0700
> You leave out one vital piece of information: do you have any free Windows
2000 or Windows 2003 TS CALs installed on the TS Licensing Server?
>
> A device can only *once* receive a temporary license. When the temporary license has expired (after 90 days) you must have a permanent (purchased) TS CAL available on the Licensing Server.
> You cannot renew a temporary license.
> There's not hotfix for this :-)
I think the answer is 'yes', but don't just take my word for it - here's
what Terminal Server Licensing says:
Product
Type Total Available Issued
Existing Windows 2000 Server - Terminal Services CAL Token (per device)
Built-in Unlimited Unlimited 1
Temporary Licenses for Windows Server 2003 - Terminal Services CAL Token
(per device) Temporary - - 3
Temporary Licenses for Windows Server 2003 - Terminal Server Per Device CAL
Token Temporary - - 26
Windows Server 2003 - Terminal Server Per Device CAL Token
Open 30 21 9
Windows Server 2003 - Terminal Server Per Device CAL Token
Open 2 0 2
Windows Server 2003 - Terminal Server Per Device CAL Token
Open 30 4 26
"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:
> You leave out one vital piece of information:
> do you have any free Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 TS CALs
> installed on the TS Licensing Server?
>
> A device can only *once* receive a temporary license. When the
> temporary license has expired (after 90 days) you must have a
> permanent (purchased) TS CAL available on the Licensing Server.
> You cannot renew a temporary license.
>
> There's not hotfix for this :-)
>
> _________________________________________________________
> Vera Noest
> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
> TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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>
> "=?Utf-8?B?U2ltb24gSGFycGhhbQ==?=" <Simon
> Harpham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 14 okt 2005:
>
> > Hi. We run a mixed Windows and Linux network and are having a
> > problem with terminal licensing.
> >
> > First off, some details about our operating environment:
> >
> > We have three servers:
> >
> > 1) Windows 2003 Server domain controller (no SP) running
> > terminal services in Per Device mode.
> >
> > 2) Windows 2000 Server (SP 4) running terminal services in
> > Application mode.
> >
> > 3) Red-Hat Linux version 2.6.5-1.358
> > (bhcompile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040412
> > (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7))
> >
> > All dumb-terminals PXE-boot from Linux, which starts 'X' and
> > redirects the terminal to windows terminal services running on
> > server #2 (above). At which point terminal services logs both an
> > information and warning message to Server#2's event log with
> > same event ID, viz: event ID 1004 "The terminal server cannot
> > issue a client license."
> >
> > I've checked terminal server licensing on the Windows 2003
> > computer (the server that's doing terminal server licensing for
> > our domain), and the terminal in question has been allocated a
> > "Temporary License for Windows 2000 Server - Terminal Services
> > CAL Token (Per Device)" - this license has now expired.
> >
> > I've had a look at the various licensing tools provided with
> > Windows but none of them give me the option of renewing these
> > temporary licensing, and don't provide much information as to
> > why the problem's happening in the first place.
> >
> > I've searched on Microsoft.com for help to do with this issue
> > but the help has left me more confused than when I started.
> > Apparently I can fix my problem by either:
> >
> > 1) Restarting terminal server licensing on the licensing server,
> > waiting 15 minutes for the licensing clear-up thread to run, and
> > then retrying. This didn't work.
> >
> > 2) Ringing Microsoft for a hotfix. This hotfix applies to
> > Windows 2000 servers however, so I have my doubts it'll do the
> > job as the server that's running the T/S licensing service is a
> > Windows 2003 server.
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have any other ideas I can try before I ring the MS
> > helpline?
>
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