Server 2003 Standard vs. Server 2003 Enterprise

[Guest Mike_g]

I have seen some comments on the net that stated you can only have two TS

sessions on a machine with Windows Server 2003 Standard loaded and if I want

more concurrent TS Sessions I would need to purchase the Enterprise version.

These references are all pretty old.

 

Is that still true?

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Server 2003 Standard vs. Server 2003 Enterprise

 

No, and it has never been true either!

 

Enterprise Edition is only required if you want to use TS together

with the Session Directory service. The Terminal Services Session

Directory service is a database that keeps track of sessions on

terminal servers in a load-balanced cluster. In addition, this

service provides the information that is used at connection time to

connect you to an existing session.

 

But with just Standard Edition, there is no limit to the number of

sessions, other than what your hardware can sustain.

 

The 2 session limit applies only to servers (of all editions) which

are configured for Remote Desktop for Administration, i.e. they are

not real Terminal Servers, and Terminal Services was never

installed.

_________________________________________________________

Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

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

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=?Utf-8?B?TWlrZV9n?= <mike_g@nospam.nospam> wrote on 06 feb 2008

in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> I have seen some comments on the net that stated you can only

> have two TS sessions on a machine with Windows Server 2003

> Standard loaded and if I want more concurrent TS Sessions I

> would need to purchase the Enterprise version. These references

> are all pretty old.

>

> Is that still true?

[Guest David Shen [MSFT]]

RE: Server 2003 Standard vs. Server 2003 Enterprise

 

Dear Customer,

 

Thanks for post here, and thank to Vera for the assistance.

 

For your concern about the number of the concurrent Terminal Service

sessions, I'd like to share some knowledge.

 

Analysis:

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For Windows Server 2003 Standard and Enterprise, there is no limitation to

the number of the concurrent Terminal Service.

 

You may run MPSRPT_NETWORK.EXE on the Windows Server 2003 system to collect

the system information to verify it.

 

In the collected network information of MPS Report, you may find the string

"Maximum Logged On Users" is "Unlimited"

 

For you reference:

================

 

Microsoft Product Support's Reporting Tools

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=CEBF3C7C-7CA5-408F-

88B7-F9C79B7306C0&displaylang=en

 

Hope the information will be helpful.

 

Thanks for your time.

 

David Shen

Microsoft Online Partner Support

[Guest Mike_g]

RE: Server 2003 Standard vs. Server 2003 Enterprise

 

Thanks to both David and Vera for the response.

- Mike

[Guest David Shen [MSFT]]

RE: Server 2003 Standard vs. Server 2003 Enterprise

 

Dear Customer,

 

Thanks for your response.

 

I'm glad to hear that you have resolved the issue. You are welcome to

Newsgroup for further questions.

 

Thanks a lot.

 

David Shen

Microsoft Online Partner Support