Guest Andrew Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 I have a Windows 2003 R2 box setup as our Terminal Service Licensing Server. The server was for a long time functioning properly. However recently I removed the server as a Domain Controller, it is still a member of the domain. My other W2K3 Enterprise server is now complaining that it can not find a TS Licensing Server in the domain. When I run TS Licensing "snap-in" on the server which is supposed to be the TS Licensing server, it states it can't find a TS License Server either. If I hit ok, and then select connect and enter the machines own name, it finds the activated Licenses server. Close and open the "snap-in" and it throws the error again. Does the TS Licensing Server have to be a DC? Any suggestions? Thanks, Andrew
Guest Andrew Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 Re: TS Licensing Server now not Fuctioning? Look like TS License Servers have to domain controllers. Andrew "Andrew" <1800PRIVATE@NOWHERE.COM> wrote in message news:%23FralSVyHHA.5856@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >I have a Windows 2003 R2 box setup as our Terminal Service Licensing >Server. The server was for a long time functioning properly. > > However recently I removed the server as a Domain Controller, it is still > a member of the domain. > > My other W2K3 Enterprise server is now complaining that it can not find a > TS Licensing Server in the domain. > > When I run TS Licensing "snap-in" on the server which is supposed to be > the TS Licensing server, it states it can't find a TS License Server > either. If I hit ok, and then select connect and enter the machines own > name, it finds the activated Licenses server. Close and open the > "snap-in" and it throws the error again. > > Does the TS Licensing Server have to be a DC? > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Andrew >
Guest Vera Noest [MVP] Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 Re: TS Licensing Server now not Fuctioning? No, not at all. But a TS LS which is installed as a Domain LS is not automatically discovered when it is running on a member server. It was while you had the TSLS running as a Domain LS on the DC, and would still be auto-discovered if it was an Enterprise LS on a member server in the same site as the TS (which publishes the LS in Active Directory). This is documented here: 301932 - Terminal Services Licensing service discovery http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=301932 You can solve the problem by defining a preferred TSLS on your Terminal Server. This can be done: 1) in Terminal Services Configuration - Server settings 2) in the registry 279561 - How to Override the License Server Discovery Process in Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=279561 3) in a Group Policy: Computer Configuration - Administrative templates - Windows Components - Terminal Services "Use the specified Terminal Server license servers" _________________________________________________________ Vera Noest MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___ "Andrew" <1800PRIVATE@NOWHERE.COM> wrote on 18 jul 2007 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services: > Look like TS License Servers have to domain controllers. > > Andrew > > > "Andrew" <1800PRIVATE@NOWHERE.COM> wrote in message > news:%23FralSVyHHA.5856@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >>I have a Windows 2003 R2 box setup as our Terminal Service >>Licensing Server. The server was for a long time functioning >>properly. >> >> However recently I removed the server as a Domain Controller, >> it is still a member of the domain. >> >> My other W2K3 Enterprise server is now complaining that it can >> not find a TS Licensing Server in the domain. >> >> When I run TS Licensing "snap-in" on the server which is >> supposed to be the TS Licensing server, it states it can't find >> a TS License Server either. If I hit ok, and then select >> connect and enter the machines own name, it finds the activated >> Licenses server. Close and open the "snap-in" and it throws >> the error again. >> >> Does the TS Licensing Server have to be a DC? >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Andrew
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