CAL queries

[Guest cw1972]

I don't have much experience with TS CALs but due to us running out

recently I had to get up to speed on them, however I have a query if a

more experience user out there can help.

 

This page: http://www.msterminalservices.org/articles/Terminal-Services-CAL-Allocation-Process-Part1.html

 

states that:

 

The license server runs a process every 24 hours to recover CALs that

have expired and place them back into the pool.

 

 

But when I look in the TS Licensing UI I see CALs there that have

expired recently and even ones that expired years ago.

 

Does that mean that CAL recovery is never being run on these license

servers and if so what is the best troubleshooting method for this?

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

cw

[Guest Ratnesh Yadav [MSFT]]

Re: CAL queries

 

Your server might have hit a bug in the OS where if Microsoft's Volume

Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is running on the system, it could stop the thread

in TS License Server that reclaims expired licenses.

 

You can try stopping and restarting TS License Server - it will restart the

thread, and, if the bug is the culprit, expired license will soon be put

back into the pool of available licenses

 

Check if it works

 

Ratnesh

 

"cw1972" <cw1972@gmail.com> wrote in message

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>I don't have much experience with TS CALs but due to us running out

> recently I had to get up to speed on them, however I have a query if a

> more experience user out there can help.

>

> This page:

> http://www.msterminalservices.org/articles/Terminal-Services-CAL-Allocation-Process-Part1.html

>

> states that:

>

> The license server runs a process every 24 hours to recover CALs that

> have expired and place them back into the pool.

>

>

> But when I look in the TS Licensing UI I see CALs there that have

> expired recently and even ones that expired years ago.

>

> Does that mean that CAL recovery is never being run on these license

> servers and if so what is the best troubleshooting method for this?

>

> Any help would be much appreciated.

>

> Thanks,

>

> cw