1) Terminal Services Client Access Licenses are assigned to the client, not
the Server running Terminal Services. The Terminal Services License Server
hands out the license tokens to clients and manages how many of what kind
have been handed out and to which clients. For Windows 2003 a "client" can
be a Device or a User (Windows 2000 TS only has Per Device licensing). You
decide at the time of TS License Token installation whether the License is
for Per User or Per Device.
2) Windows 2000 (and Windows 2003) Server does not ship with any Terminal
Services CALs. For Windows 2003 Terminal Services, that means that no
client computers or users can use Terminal Services without acquiring
Windows 2003 Terminal Services Client Access Licenses. If I recall
correctly, the basic Windows Server license includes 5 SERVER Client Access
Licenses which allows five client computers to use the Server's basic
functions (authentication, file sharing, printer sharing etc.), but NOT
Terminal Services. The 5 you have for the 2003 Standard Server and 25 for
the Enterprise Server are most likely SERVER CALS, not Terminal Services
CALs, unless you specifically acquired Terminal Services CALs. Terminal
Services CALs have always been seperate. To use Terminal Services, a client
needs both a SERVER CAL and a Terminal Services CAL. Terminal Services
provide for Temporary Licenses 120 days) before a License Server Service is
installed and License Tokens added.
3) Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional licenses
essentially "include" a Windows 2000 Terminal Services CAL, so these client
OSs can use Windows 2000 Terminal Services without additional cost. There
is no equivalent "included" license for Windows 2003 Terminal Services (but
see item 3 in my previous post).
4) The Remote Desktop Client package (from
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/tools/rdclientdl.mspx) can be
installed on any Windows version, including Windows 2000 Professional. An
earlier version of this client is included with Windows XP.
5) To connect to another computer from a Windows XP computer, or any
computer with the RDP client (see 4 above):
Start, All Programs, Accessories, Communications, Remote Desktop
Connection
This RDP client can connect (with appropriate permissions and licenses)
to:
- Windows XP Pro (no license required)
- Windows 2000 Server with Terminal Services installed in Remote
Administration Mode (no license required)
- Windows 2000 Server with Terminal Services installed in Application
Mode - TS CAL required but built in to 2000 and XP Pro
- Windows 2003 Server without Terminal Services installed (no license
required)
- Windows 2003 Server with Terminal Services installed - 2003 TS CAL
required - must be purchase seperately
6) If you actually have Windows 2003 the Terminal Services component
installed (it will show up in Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs,
Add/Remove Windows Components with a check mark beside it) on your Windows
2003 servers and had a Windows 2003 Terminal Services License Server
installed, Activated and working, then uninstalled the Windows 2003 License
Service, you are most likely working on borrowed time because Per Device
license tokens handed out to client computers will expire after about 120
days. See
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/centers/terminal/tsfaq_matrix.mspx.
If you are using Per User licenses, connection will be refused if a License
Server is not available.
Other TS Licensing links:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/centers/terminal/terminal_faq.mspx
- see in particular the answer to How do I configure Terminal Services
Licensing (TSL) servers for redundancy or high availability?
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=822134
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=823313
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/howtobuy/licensing/ts2003.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr.../technologies/security/ws03mngd/22_s3trm.mspx
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Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders
It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.