TS Licensing....Confused

[Guest nick]

Here's my dilemma....

 

We have a Win2K TS which has about 5 people connected at any one given

time. I get a message stating that I am about to exceed my maximum

concurrent connections. However, how do I tell how many TS licenses I

have? I went into "licensing" in admin. tools on that particular

server. I don't see anything specifically related to TS licensing.

 

Any help for the clueless?

[Guest nick]

Re: TS Licensing....Confused

 

On Mar 19, 10:40 am, nick <cipher7...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Here's my dilemma....

>

> We have a Win2K TS which has about 5 people connected at any one given

> time. I get a message stating that I am about to exceed my maximum

> concurrent connections. However, how do I tell how many TS licenses I

> have? I went into "licensing" in admin. tools on that particular

> server. I don't see anything specifically related to TS licensing.

>

> Any help for the clueless?

 

As a follow up to my previous post....

 

I checked the DC (Win2K3) and found TS Licensing on there. However,

under servers I don't see that particular server even listed there.

Most of my users connect to our public IP from different machines. So

this per seat thing has me kind of confused. Also, why doesn't that

particular TS server even come up?

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: TS Licensing....Confused

 

nick <cipher7836@gmail.com> wrote on 19 mar 2008 in

microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> On Mar 19, 10:40 am, nick <cipher7...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Here's my dilemma....

>>

>> We have a Win2K TS which has about 5 people connected at any

>> one given time. I get a message stating that I am about to

>> exceed my maximum concurrent connections. However, how do I

>> tell how many TS licenses I have? I went into "licensing" in

>> admin. tools on that particular server. I don't see anything

>> specifically related to TS licensing.

>>

>> Any help for the clueless?

>

> As a follow up to my previous post....

>

> I checked the DC (Win2K3) and found TS Licensing on there.

> However, under servers I don't see that particular server even

> listed there. Most of my users connect to our public IP from

> different machines. So this per seat thing has me kind of

> confused. Also, why doesn't that particular TS server even come

> up?

 

The significant word in your first post is "concurrent". TS

licensing is never per concurrent connection, but server-client

licensing is.

So the warning that you received has most likely nothing to do with

TS CALs, it is about normal server CALs. You can check those in the

Licensing applet in Control Panel.

 

And about the TS Licensing manager on your DC: your Terminal Server

is not supposed to show up here. What you should see in the TS LS

Manager is the type and number of installed licenses on the DC, and

how many of them are available and issued. For the issued ones, you

can see to which clients they are issued.

_________________________________________________________

Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

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

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[Guest nick]

Re: TS Licensing....Confused

 

On Mar 19, 3:59 pm, "Vera Noest [MVP]" <vera.no...@remove-

this.hem.utfors.se> wrote:

> nick <cipher7...@gmail.com> wrote on 19 mar 2008 in

> microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

>

>

>

>

>

> > On Mar 19, 10:40 am, nick <cipher7...@gmail.com> wrote:

> >> Here's my dilemma....

>

> >> We have a Win2K TS which has about 5 people connected at any

> >> one given time. I get a message stating that I am about to

> >> exceed my maximum concurrent connections. However, how do I

> >> tell how many TS licenses I have? I went into "licensing" in

> >> admin. tools on that particular server. I don't see anything

> >> specifically related to TS licensing.

>

> >> Any help for the clueless?

>

> > As a follow up to my previous post....

>

> > I checked the DC (Win2K3) and found TS Licensing on there.

> > However, under servers I don't see that particular server even

> > listed there. Most of my users connect to our public IP from

> > different machines. So this per seat thing has me kind of

> > confused. Also, why doesn't that particular TS server even come

> > up?

>

> The significant word in your first post is "concurrent". TS

> licensing is never per concurrent connection, but server-client

> licensing is.

> So the warning that you received has most likely nothing to do with

> TS CALs, it is about normal server CALs. You can check those in the

> Licensing applet in Control Panel.

>

> And about the TS Licensing manager on your DC: your Terminal Server

> is not supposed to show up here. What you should see in the TS LS

> Manager is the type and number of installed licenses on the DC, and

> how many of them are available and issued. For the issued ones, you

> can see to which clients they are issued.

> _________________________________________________________

> Vera Noest

> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

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

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>

> - Show quoted text -

 

That makes sense. Thanks for the reply. So if I understand this

correctly the system doesn't give a fig about the amount of users just

the amount of systems connecting to that server? We have an SBS2003

box that has licenses per user. Is it possible that the TS has its own

licensing regardless of the SBS2003?

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: TS Licensing....Confused

 

nick <cipher7836@gmail.com> wrote on 20 mar 2008 in

microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> On Mar 19, 3:59 pm, "Vera Noest [MVP]" <vera.no...@remove-

> this.hem.utfors.se> wrote:

>> nick <cipher7...@gmail.com> wrote on 19 mar 2008 in

>> microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>> > On Mar 19, 10:40 am, nick <cipher7...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> >> Here's my dilemma....

>>

>> >> We have a Win2K TS which has about 5 people connected at any

>> >> one given time. I get a message stating that I am about to

>> >> exceed my maximum concurrent connections. However, how do I

>> >> tell how many TS licenses I have? I went into "licensing" in

>> >> admin. tools on that particular server. I don't see anything

>> >> specifically related to TS licensing.

>>

>> >> Any help for the clueless?

>>

>> > As a follow up to my previous post....

>>

>> > I checked the DC (Win2K3) and found TS Licensing on there.

>> > However, under servers I don't see that particular server

>> > even listed there. Most of my users connect to our public IP

>> > from different machines. So this per seat thing has me kind

>> > of confused. Also, why doesn't that particular TS server even

>> > come up?

>>

>> The significant word in your first post is "concurrent". TS

>> licensing is never per concurrent connection, but server-client

>> licensing is.

>> So the warning that you received has most likely nothing to do

>> with TS CALs, it is about normal server CALs. You can check

>> those in the Licensing applet in Control Panel.

>>

>> And about the TS Licensing manager on your DC: your Terminal

>> Server is not supposed to show up here. What you should see in

>> the TS LS Manager is the type and number of installed licenses

>> on the DC, and how many of them are available and issued. For

>> the issued ones, you can see to which clients they are issued.

>> _________________________________________________________

>> Vera Noest

>> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

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

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> That makes sense. Thanks for the reply. So if I understand this

> correctly the system doesn't give a fig about the amount of

> users just the amount of systems connecting to that server? We

> have an SBS2003 box that has licenses per user. Is it possible

> that the TS has its own licensing regardless of the SBS2003?

 

You should take this discussion to the SBS newsgroup, since SBS

licensing is special. Check the Licensing applet on both the TS and

(I assume) the SBS to see the licensing mode of both servers.

 

Here are a lot of licensing Q&A's about SBS and TS:

 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/evaluation/faq/defau

lt.mspx

 

_________________________________________________________

Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

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

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