Licensing Confusion

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I have a client with 5 servers. One server runs Terminal Services on
a Win2K box. The second server runs Terminal Services on a Win2K3 box.
I just started working with this client so I have very little
information on them.

From what I gather all users connect to the Win2K box using TS. The
second server one user just remotes to. Since the second server is
telling me I need to buy TS licenses I figured I would do something
smart....I would just remove TS from there, and let RDfA kick in.
Here's the problem....

Since TS uninstalls any programs installed while in TS mode it could
possibly uninstall the billing software they use. My question is...how
can I tell what programs were installed after TS was installed? Also,
how can I tell what machines run TS and would need licenses in the
future other than logging on to each machine and "hunting" for the
information?
 
Re: Licensing Confusion

Your second question is easiest to answer:
Windows 2003 servers with only RDfA enabled are not advertised as
terminal Servers, and thus do not show up in Terminal Services
Manager.

281307 - Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Are Not Advertised as
Terminal Services Servers
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281307

Uninstalling TS does not completely uninstall applications which
were installed after TS, but it might make them stop working.
In general, a server application like SQL or a 3rd party backup
application would most likely not be affected, but appliactions
with user-specific settings could well be stop working correctly.

I don't know of an easy way to tell which applaication would be
affected by uninstalling TS. You might have to try to establish the
date TS was installed by looking at the EventLog and search for the
first warning about expiration of the grace period, and compare
that with the date the application folder was created.
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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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nick <cipher7836@gmail.com> wrote on 24 feb 2008 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> I have a client with 5 servers. One server runs Terminal
> Services on a Win2K box. The second server runs Terminal
> Services on a Win2K3 box. I just started working with this
> client so I have very little information on them.
>
> From what I gather all users connect to the Win2K box using TS.
> The second server one user just remotes to. Since the second
> server is telling me I need to buy TS licenses I figured I would
> do something smart....I would just remove TS from there, and let
> RDfA kick in. Here's the problem....
>
> Since TS uninstalls any programs installed while in TS mode it
> could possibly uninstall the billing software they use. My
> question is...how can I tell what programs were installed after
> TS was installed? Also, how can I tell what machines run TS and
> would need licenses in the future other than logging on to each
> machine and "hunting" for the information?
 
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