Licensing; making sense of it all

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I have 3 servers; 2 windows 2000 advanced server, one of which is a DC/
2k terminal server license server and the other is a citrix/TS box.
The third server is Windows 2003, used as a terminal server/2k3 ts
license server and ftp. I want to be sure I am in compliance, but
it's sorta confusing. The licenses are set up like this:
Citrix2k: per server, 15 cals, 2 reached
DC2k: per user/device: n/a cals, 9 reached
TS2003: per user/device, 0 purchased, 5 reached

The 'clients' tab of the licensing snap-in claims that *every one* of
my users have 0 Licensed Usage and 1 Unlicensed Usage, for "Windows
Server" whatever that means.

The 'Products view' tab shows the following:
Windows server (with yellow triangle + exclamation mark):
per device/user purchased: 0
per device/user allocated: 37
per server purchased: 14
per server reached: 4

When I double-click the Windows Server 'product', every domain user
and local user from the two servers that have per user/device
licensing are llisted with a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark
next to their name (the users on the per server/citrix box are
noticeably absent) .

I purchased the server and the OS from Dell; it came with 5 CALs (from
the email receipt: "Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition, Includes
5 CALs")

I purchased and installed 15 TS CALS, and they read like this (in the
TS licensing snap in):
type: open
total: 15
available: 15
issued : not applicable

Now, I am logged in to the TS right now, which is how I am viewing
this information. 15 out of 15 are available? What? There are
actually 4 TS sessions open!

I get *no* Licensing errors on the Terminal Server/2k3, none on the
citrix box, and on the DC i get:
License Service evt 213: "Replication of license information failed
because the License Logging Service on server svr-sql.xx.Local could
not be contacted."
SVR_SQL is a box that i decommissioned a while ago; it was the old
domain controller, i migrated the AD to the new DC a while ago.
Other than that, everything is working perfectly.

BUT: AM I IN COMPLIANCE????

Thanks!
 
Re: Licensing; making sense of it all

Hi itzfritz,

The License Logging Service in Windows Server has always been really flaky
and thus pretty useless. If you are NOT running SBS 2000/2003 then i would
just disable the license manager service (by default 2003 comes with it
disabled). http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316631/en-us Microsoft really
just cares now that you have the pieces of paper to prove you have purchased
licenses. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824196

The TS licenses use a different license service (not connected to the
windows license logging service), do not disable this one. :-)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823313

Coraleigh Miller


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>I have 3 servers; 2 windows 2000 advanced server, one of which is a DC/
> 2k terminal server license server and the other is a citrix/TS box.
> The third server is Windows 2003, used as a terminal server/2k3 ts
> license server and ftp. I want to be sure I am in compliance, but
> it's sorta confusing. The licenses are set up like this:
> Citrix2k: per server, 15 cals, 2 reached
> DC2k: per user/device: n/a cals, 9 reached
> TS2003: per user/device, 0 purchased, 5 reached
>
> The 'clients' tab of the licensing snap-in claims that *every one* of
> my users have 0 Licensed Usage and 1 Unlicensed Usage, for "Windows
> Server" whatever that means.
>
> The 'Products view' tab shows the following:
> Windows server (with yellow triangle + exclamation mark):
> per device/user purchased: 0
> per device/user allocated: 37
> per server purchased: 14
> per server reached: 4
>
> When I double-click the Windows Server 'product', every domain user
> and local user from the two servers that have per user/device
> licensing are llisted with a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark
> next to their name (the users on the per server/citrix box are
> noticeably absent) .
>
> I purchased the server and the OS from Dell; it came with 5 CALs (from
> the email receipt: "Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition, Includes
> 5 CALs")
>
> I purchased and installed 15 TS CALS, and they read like this (in the
> TS licensing snap in):
> type: open
> total: 15
> available: 15
> issued : not applicable
>
> Now, I am logged in to the TS right now, which is how I am viewing
> this information. 15 out of 15 are available? What? There are
> actually 4 TS sessions open!
>
> I get *no* Licensing errors on the Terminal Server/2k3, none on the
> citrix box, and on the DC i get:
> License Service evt 213: "Replication of license information failed
> because the License Logging Service on server svr-sql.xx.Local could
> not be contacted."
> SVR_SQL is a box that i decommissioned a while ago; it was the old
> domain controller, i migrated the AD to the new DC a while ago.
> Other than that, everything is working perfectly.
>
> BUT: AM I IN COMPLIANCE????
>
> Thanks!
>
 
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