Guest itzfritz@gmail.com Posted September 1, 2007 Posted September 1, 2007 I have 3 servers; 2 windows 2000 advanced server, one of which is a DC/ 2k terminal server license server and the other is a citrix/TS box. The third server is Windows 2003, used as a terminal server/2k3 ts license server and ftp. I want to be sure I am in compliance, but it's sorta confusing. The licenses are set up like this: Citrix2k: per server, 15 cals, 2 reached DC2k: per user/device: n/a cals, 9 reached TS2003: per user/device, 0 purchased, 5 reached The 'clients' tab of the licensing snap-in claims that *every one* of my users have 0 Licensed Usage and 1 Unlicensed Usage, for "Windows Server" whatever that means. The 'Products view' tab shows the following: Windows server (with yellow triangle + exclamation mark): per device/user purchased: 0 per device/user allocated: 37 per server purchased: 14 per server reached: 4 When I double-click the Windows Server 'product', every domain user and local user from the two servers that have per user/device licensing are llisted with a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark next to their name (the users on the per server/citrix box are noticeably absent) . I purchased the server and the OS from Dell; it came with 5 CALs (from the email receipt: "Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition, Includes 5 CALs") I purchased and installed 15 TS CALS, and they read like this (in the TS licensing snap in): type: open total: 15 available: 15 issued : not applicable Now, I am logged in to the TS right now, which is how I am viewing this information. 15 out of 15 are available? What? There are actually 4 TS sessions open! I get *no* Licensing errors on the Terminal Server/2k3, none on the citrix box, and on the DC i get: License Service evt 213: "Replication of license information failed because the License Logging Service on server svr-sql.xx.Local could not be contacted." SVR_SQL is a box that i decommissioned a while ago; it was the old domain controller, i migrated the AD to the new DC a while ago. Other than that, everything is working perfectly. BUT: AM I IN COMPLIANCE???? Thanks!
Guest Coraleigh Miller Posted September 1, 2007 Posted September 1, 2007 Re: Licensing; making sense of it all Hi itzfritz, The License Logging Service in Windows Server has always been really flaky and thus pretty useless. If you are NOT running SBS 2000/2003 then i would just disable the license manager service (by default 2003 comes with it disabled). http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316631/en-us Microsoft really just cares now that you have the pieces of paper to prove you have purchased licenses. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824196 The TS licenses use a different license service (not connected to the windows license logging service), do not disable this one. :-) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823313 Coraleigh Miller <itzfritz@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1188647133.111272.36010@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com... >I have 3 servers; 2 windows 2000 advanced server, one of which is a DC/ > 2k terminal server license server and the other is a citrix/TS box. > The third server is Windows 2003, used as a terminal server/2k3 ts > license server and ftp. I want to be sure I am in compliance, but > it's sorta confusing. The licenses are set up like this: > Citrix2k: per server, 15 cals, 2 reached > DC2k: per user/device: n/a cals, 9 reached > TS2003: per user/device, 0 purchased, 5 reached > > The 'clients' tab of the licensing snap-in claims that *every one* of > my users have 0 Licensed Usage and 1 Unlicensed Usage, for "Windows > Server" whatever that means. > > The 'Products view' tab shows the following: > Windows server (with yellow triangle + exclamation mark): > per device/user purchased: 0 > per device/user allocated: 37 > per server purchased: 14 > per server reached: 4 > > When I double-click the Windows Server 'product', every domain user > and local user from the two servers that have per user/device > licensing are llisted with a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark > next to their name (the users on the per server/citrix box are > noticeably absent) . > > I purchased the server and the OS from Dell; it came with 5 CALs (from > the email receipt: "Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition, Includes > 5 CALs") > > I purchased and installed 15 TS CALS, and they read like this (in the > TS licensing snap in): > type: open > total: 15 > available: 15 > issued : not applicable > > Now, I am logged in to the TS right now, which is how I am viewing > this information. 15 out of 15 are available? What? There are > actually 4 TS sessions open! > > I get *no* Licensing errors on the Terminal Server/2k3, none on the > citrix box, and on the DC i get: > License Service evt 213: "Replication of license information failed > because the License Logging Service on server svr-sql.xx.Local could > not be contacted." > SVR_SQL is a box that i decommissioned a while ago; it was the old > domain controller, i migrated the AD to the new DC a while ago. > Other than that, everything is working perfectly. > > BUT: AM I IN COMPLIANCE???? > > Thanks! >
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