TS Licensing after domain move

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Neil

Hi,

I'm having a problem with a Citrix farm I administer that was recently
added to a new active directory domain. The farm was setup as
follows.

4 W2k MetaFrame 1.8 servers were in an NT4 domain, and one of the
servers was the TS License server.

Now that I've moved the servers into the new AD domain I am getting
Event 1004 errors on the Citrix servers in the Event log relating to
the License Server (it refers to one of my AD DC's) being unavailable.

Is it possible to still use the original Citrix server as a TS License
server? Or now that the servers are in the AD does the TS License
server have to be a AD DC? If it does have to be an AD DC how do I go
about setting up the licenses on the DC?

Thanks for any help!

Neil
 
And this is what Microsoft recommends about moving your licenses:

From Microsofts Terminal Services FAQ at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/centers/termi
nal/terminal_faq.asp

<quote>
Q. How do I move my licenses from one licensing server to
another?

A. You should back up your Terminal Services licensing server
regularly by using the Windows Backup tool or similar. This will
help protect your licensing data from accidental loss if your
system experiences hardware or storage failure.

When backing up a Terminal Server License Server, back up both the
System State data and the folder in which the Terminal Server
License Server is installed. This ensures that data in both the
registry and the Terminal Services licensing server database is
backed up.

If you restore the System State data and the database to the
original Terminal Services licensing server computer, any unissued
licenses are restored correctly as long as you have not replaced
the operating system on the computer. Otherwise any unissued
licenses are not restored and an event will appear in the system
log providing the unissued count. You can still restore the
unissued licenses by using the TS License Manager tool with the
Telephone activation mechanism, and requesting the licenses back.
You can switch to the Telephone mechanism by right clicking on the
server in TS License Manager, and selecting properties from the
menu.
</quote>

In short: you'll have to phone the Clearinghouse.
 
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