Terminal Services Licensing

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Hi All,

I'm looking for some advice on 'Terminal Services Licensing'. I want to
setup a Windows 2003 server but am not sure on licensing, I know you have to
purchase a CAL for each user/device that connects to the server but do you
have to purchase an additional CAL for the server itself ?

Many thanks in advance !!
 
RE: Terminal Services Licensing

If you plan to use it as a terminal server you would need TCALS and if you
plan to use it as a normal (File/Print, Database) server then you would
require normal CALS for each user/device connecting to the server.

For normal Windows CALS You have a choice of selecting CALS based on either
Number of users or Number of devices.
 
RE: Terminal Services Licensing

Thanks for the reponse..

If I want to use it for Terminal servies and file/print access do I need to
buy both a TCAL and a CAL ??

Kind Regards

"Roshan Dias" wrote:

> If you plan to use it as a terminal server you would need TCALS and if you
> plan to use it as a normal (File/Print, Database) server then you would
> require normal CALS for each user/device connecting to the server.
>
> For normal Windows CALS You have a choice of selecting CALS based on either
> Number of users or Number of devices.
>
>
>
 
RE: Terminal Services Licensing

You would require a normal (Win 2000 / 2003) CAL if you have a domain setup
with Active Directory configured. These CAL's allow you to login to the
domain and share the resources which are allowed for that particular user.
this includes file print access.

You would require a TCAL if you intend to do a terminal session on the
server( this is just like Remote Desktop) you can do as many terminal session
logins in the server as many as the number of CALS you have. In a terminal
session you would be operating entirely on the server (CPU & ram resources
are used from the server) and not on the device which you are using to
connect to the server.

SO if you have a Thin client kind of setup you would require only TCALS, but
if you are using a Desktop / Laptop evironment which are part of the domain
you would require Normal CALS & if you intend to use Terminal Service on
these DEsktops you would require both Normal CALS and TCALS.

Regards,
Roshan
 
Re: Terminal Services Licensing

On Jan 10, 3:42 pm, John <J...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm looking for some advice on 'Terminal Services Licensing'.  I want to
> setup a Windows 2003 server but am not sure on licensing,  I know you have to
> purchase a CAL for each user/device that connects to the server but do you
> have to purchase an additional CAL for the server itself ?
>
> Many thanks in advance !!


If you want to deploy thin clients, you need as many CALs as the
number of users and as many TS-CALs (device type)as the number of
(devices) client machines. YOu need both these licenses.

Cheers
Neeraj
 
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