Licensing on Terminal service 2003

[Guest sambols]

How do I get a Win2003 R2 server I am connecting to with RDP to ask for a

terminal server user CAL from the License server? After 2 connections it

gives the message "The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of

allowed connections." I have 15 user CALS installed on the licence server but

it can't see it for some reason. Is there any way to force it to see the

licence server?

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Licensing on Terminal service 2003

 

There are 2 possible reasons for this message:

 

1. you never installed terminal Services (in Control Panel -

Add/Remove programs - Add Windows components), so the server is still

runing only Remote Desktop for Administration and doesn't even try to

find a Licensing Server.

 

2. You did install TS, but for some reason or the other (can be a

GPO) the total number of allowed connections is set to 2. Check in

terminal Services Configuration - rdp-tcp connection properties -

Network. If it say "2" there and the value is greyed out and cannot

be changed, it's enforced in a Group Policy somewhere in your domain.

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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?c2FtYm9scw==?= <sambols@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote

on 14 feb 2008 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> How do I get a Win2003 R2 server I am connecting to with RDP to

> ask for a terminal server user CAL from the License server?

> After 2 connections it gives the message "The terminal server

> has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections." I have

> 15 user CALS installed on the licence server but it can't see it

> for some reason. Is there any way to force it to see the licence

> server?