Re: Control Licensing

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

The server will *only* issue a TS CAL to a device that connects to it via TS (RDP or ICA).

You should consider isolating the laptop traffic so that they are unable to communicate with your server. That way you are protected from virus infections as well.

-TP

Jack Spratt wrote:
I have windows 2003 server STD in a school environment with 40 TS
licenses. Students are allowed to hook up to the network to access
the internet. None of their laptops belong to the school domain
neither do they use RDP. They only hook up to the network to access
the internet.

Whenever a laptop is hooked up to the network 2 or more times 2003
detects it and gives them a license, which they don't need since they
are not accessing the server or even the resources/files on it.

I now have one school thin client that can't access the network
because it can't get a license (a student hooked her laptop up to
access the internet earlier in the day and the thin client license
expired a day earlier and wasn't used till today). As far as I know I
need to now uninstall Terminal Services and reinstall so I can get
the school machines back up and running.

My question is: How do I control the licensing so it goes to
designated machines and not to student laptops, while still giving
students the opportunity to hook their laptops up to accesss the
internet? I'm getting frustrated that the licenses are controlling me
and I don't know how to control them. There has to be a way. Is
there a way of force removing assigned licenses without
uninstalling/installing? Is there a way to say that these specific
MAC address are the only ones that qualify for a license. Is there a
way of saying "I'm the human, you're the machine - you will obey me"?
.

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