Licensing Clarification Needed

[Guest goosed]

Hello all. Today a user had a message on they're screen saying "Your terminal

service temporary client license will expire in 0 days, contact your

administrator to get a permanent license".

 

We currently have 100 Device, and 100 User CAL's, and the licensing mode is

set to Per User.

 

My question is, why are Device licenses being eaten up if I have licensing

set to User? All 100 of my Device licenses are in use, and I know that User

licenses don't decrement, so I have 100 there. I just want to know if there

is something that I should do to prevent my users from being unable to access

the terminal servers, or if this is something that should be happening. Thank

you in advance for your help.

[Guest Rob Leitman [MS]]

Re: Licensing Clarification Needed

 

It sure sounds like you have the TS running in Per Device mode. Can you

double-check in tscc?

 

Rob

 

"goosed" <goosed@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:99CDE692-3CEF-45A5-91AE-971D014F09D4@microsoft.com...

> Hello all. Today a user had a message on they're screen saying "Your

> terminal

> service temporary client license will expire in 0 days, contact your

> administrator to get a permanent license".

>

> We currently have 100 Device, and 100 User CAL's, and the licensing mode

> is

> set to Per User.

>

> My question is, why are Device licenses being eaten up if I have licensing

> set to User? All 100 of my Device licenses are in use, and I know that

> User

> licenses don't decrement, so I have 100 there. I just want to know if

> there

> is something that I should do to prevent my users from being unable to

> access

> the terminal servers, or if this is something that should be happening.

> Thank

> you in advance for your help.

[Guest goosed]

Re: Licensing Clarification Needed

 

I just double-checked, and found that two of my five terminal servers had

"Per Device". I changed them to "Per User".

 

I also checked and saw that Group Policy had it set to "Per User". In the

explanation it reads that settings in Group Policy will overwrite what is

listed in TSCC.

 

So what happens now? Will those clients that were connected to those

terminal servers now receive User licenses?

 

Thank you for the reply.

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Licensing Clarification Needed

 

Nobody will ever receive a Per user license, because Per user

licenses aren't managed on Windows 2003. But the server will stop

complaining :-)

This means that you have to keep track of your license usage by

hand, in one way or the other.

In a standard situation, with only a single type of licenses, this

is difficult enough. How you can do that with a mixture of Per

Device and Per User TS CALs, I have no idea.

The fact that your temporary Per Device TS CALs were expiring means

that you have more than 100 clients connecting to those Terminal

Servers which were in the Per Device licensing mode.

 

I would run Resultant Set of Policies (RSop) on your servers as

well. As you say, the GPO setting should override the local

setting, so I'd check if the GPOs are applied properly at all.

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Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

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

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=?Utf-8?B?Z29vc2Vk?= <goosed@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on

30 nov 2007 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> I just double-checked, and found that two of my five terminal

> servers had "Per Device". I changed them to "Per User".

>

> I also checked and saw that Group Policy had it set to "Per

> User". In the explanation it reads that settings in Group Policy

> will overwrite what is listed in TSCC.

>

> So what happens now? Will those clients that were connected to

> those terminal servers now receive User licenses?

>

> Thank you for the reply.

[Guest Hank Arnold (MVP)]

Re: Licensing Clarification Needed

 

goosed wrote:

> I just double-checked, and found that two of my five terminal servers had

> "Per Device". I changed them to "Per User".

>

> I also checked and saw that Group Policy had it set to "Per User". In the

> explanation it reads that settings in Group Policy will overwrite what is

> listed in TSCC.

>

> So what happens now? Will those clients that were connected to those

> terminal servers now receive User licenses?

>

> Thank you for the reply.

 

You may have to delete the license information stored on those

workstations. I'd try logging on first, though, they *may* igonre it and

connect automatically....

 

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Regards,

Hank Arnold

Microsoft MVP

Windows Server - Directory Services