How to control which clients are issued TS license?

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I have a single Windows 2003 Server running terminal services in a
Win2k AD Domain. The terminal server is also the licensing server. We
are using per device licenses. How can we control what clients
(computers) are issued a TS license? Is there a group policy for this?

Our TS licenses are being chewed up because someone logs in one time
from a PC and is assigned a license. As I understand it, we cannot
revoke these licenses we simply have to wait for them to expire in
52-89 days so we want to exert some kind of positive control over this.

Thanks for the help!

Jeff
 
Some extra information:

The *first* time a client connects, it is given a temporary license.
That is done with the purpose to avoid your situation: since the
license is issued before it is known who the user is, a malicious
user could use up all your licenses.
During the *second* logon, the client receives a permanent license.

So it must be one of your authorized users who is running around and
logging in (at least 2 times) on different clients.

User education is the keyword here + limiting the number of
authorized users on the TS, instead of adding all Domain Users.

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