Your terminal services temporary client license will expire in * days. Please contact your system administrator to get a permanent license.

[Guest BLT]

Your terminal services temporary client license will expire in * days. Please contact your system administrator to get a permanent license.

 

Hi,

 

Our users are getting this message when logging into one of our

windows 2003 servers through mstsc. We have 5 per user licenses

available but even though the licensing mode is set to per user, it

still only issues temporary licenses. I've been searching for a while

and I found this quote on the microsoft site:

 

"Currently, Windows Server 2003 does not manage User CALs. This means

that even though there is a User CAL in the license server database,

the User CAL will not be decremented when it is used. This does not

remove administrators from End User License Agreement (EULA)

requirements to have a valid terminal server (TS) CAL for each user.

Failure to have a User CAL for each user, if Device CALs are not being

used, is a violation of the EULA."

 

If that's still the case, what are we supposed to do to get the server

to issue licenses correctly? Or is it a case of having to have per

device licenses?

 

Let me know if I've been too vague and you need more information.

 

Thanks in advance,

Ben

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Your terminal services temporary client license will expire in * days. Please contact your system administrator to get a permanent license.

 

Re: Your terminal services temporary client license will expire in * days. Please contact your system administrator to get a permanent license.

 

Which SP is the server running?

There has been a bug with the TS Licensing mode switching to an

undefined value (which isn't visible in the GUI), but it was fixed

in SP1.

 

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Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net

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BLT <ben643@gmail.com> wrote on 18 jul 2007 in

microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Hi,

>

> Our users are getting this message when logging into one of our

> windows 2003 servers through mstsc. We have 5 per user licenses

> available but even though the licensing mode is set to per user,

> it still only issues temporary licenses. I've been searching for

> a while and I found this quote on the microsoft site:

>

> "Currently, Windows Server 2003 does not manage User CALs. This

> means that even though there is a User CAL in the license server

> database, the User CAL will not be decremented when it is used.

> This does not remove administrators from End User License

> Agreement (EULA) requirements to have a valid terminal server

> (TS) CAL for each user. Failure to have a User CAL for each

> user, if Device CALs are not being used, is a violation of the

> EULA."

>

> If that's still the case, what are we supposed to do to get the

> server to issue licenses correctly? Or is it a case of having to

> have per device licenses?

>

> Let me know if I've been too vague and you need more

> information.

>

> Thanks in advance,

> Ben