TS CAL in multi forest environment??

[Guest Thue]

Hi

 

I have a very tricky question which I cannot seem to find the correct answer

to.

 

Perhaps some of you guys have been in a similar situation.

 

I maintain some different development and test environments for my company,

and right now we have 5 different windows test-domains/forests all running

their own citrix farm (just one server) in order for my dev. guys to test

their stuff in different setups.

 

I have around 25 dev guys with around 100 laptops and virtual machines

(mainly connected to the corporate domain), needing access to these citrix

servers.

 

The easy way to do this, was to simply just have one Workgroup MS TS license

server, and do the registry pointer from all citrix servers to this server,

and go with ~25 TS CAL's in user mode.

 

But is this the right approach for me, will it work - and is it even legal

to have several servers from different domains pull on the same license

server???

 

Hope you are able to help me, og point me to the right MS guy to talk to.

 

Best regards

Thue

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: TS CAL in multi forest environment??

 

Yes, placing your TS Licensing Server in a workgroup is the way to

solve this. And it's legal, no problems there.

 

See also:

 

Can I use a single TS Licensing Server to issue TS CALs to Terminal

Servers in multiple untrusted domains and workgroups?

http://ts.veranoest.net/ts_faq_licensing.htm#LS_untrusted_domains

 

How can I force a terminal server to use a specific licensing

server, or a licensing server outside its domain/workgroup?

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/en-

us/terminal/terminal_faq.mspx#EUF

_________________________________________________________

Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

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

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=?Utf-8?B?VGh1ZQ==?= <Thue@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 26

feb 2008:

> Hi

>

> I have a very tricky question which I cannot seem to find the

> correct answer to.

>

> Perhaps some of you guys have been in a similar situation.

>

> I maintain some different development and test environments for

> my company, and right now we have 5 different windows

> test-domains/forests all running their own citrix farm (just one

> server) in order for my dev. guys to test their stuff in

> different setups.

>

> I have around 25 dev guys with around 100 laptops and virtual

> machines (mainly connected to the corporate domain), needing

> access to these citrix servers.

>

> The easy way to do this, was to simply just have one Workgroup

> MS TS license server, and do the registry pointer from all

> citrix servers to this server, and go with ~25 TS CAL's in user

> mode.

>

> But is this the right approach for me, will it work - and is it

> even legal to have several servers from different domains pull

> on the same license server???

>

> Hope you are able to help me, og point me to the right MS guy to

> talk to.

>

> Best regards

> Thue

[Guest Thue]

Re: TS CAL in multi forest environment??

 

Hi

 

Thank you for the quick reply.

 

It seems to be working, ill test a bit more tomorrow and get back with a

status

 

Best regards

 

Thue

 

"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

> Yes, placing your TS Licensing Server in a workgroup is the way to

> solve this. And it's legal, no problems there.

>

> See also:

>

> Can I use a single TS Licensing Server to issue TS CALs to Terminal

> Servers in multiple untrusted domains and workgroups?

> http://ts.veranoest.net/ts_faq_licensing.htm#LS_untrusted_domains

>

> How can I force a terminal server to use a specific licensing

> server, or a licensing server outside its domain/workgroup?

> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/en-

> us/terminal/terminal_faq.mspx#EUF

> _________________________________________________________

> Vera Noest

> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

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

> *----------- Please reply in newsgroup -------------*

>

> =?Utf-8?B?VGh1ZQ==?= <Thue@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 26

> feb 2008:

>

> > Hi

> >

> > I have a very tricky question which I cannot seem to find the

> > correct answer to.

> >

> > Perhaps some of you guys have been in a similar situation.

> >

> > I maintain some different development and test environments for

> > my company, and right now we have 5 different windows

> > test-domains/forests all running their own citrix farm (just one

> > server) in order for my dev. guys to test their stuff in

> > different setups.

> >

> > I have around 25 dev guys with around 100 laptops and virtual

> > machines (mainly connected to the corporate domain), needing

> > access to these citrix servers.

> >

> > The easy way to do this, was to simply just have one Workgroup

> > MS TS license server, and do the registry pointer from all

> > citrix servers to this server, and go with ~25 TS CAL's in user

> > mode.

> >

> > But is this the right approach for me, will it work - and is it

> > even legal to have several servers from different domains pull

> > on the same license server???

> >

> > Hope you are able to help me, og point me to the right MS guy to

> > talk to.

> >

> > Best regards

> > Thue

>