TS Licensing....Confused

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Here's my dilemma....

We have a Win2K TS which has about 5 people connected at any one given
time. I get a message stating that I am about to exceed my maximum
concurrent connections. However, how do I tell how many TS licenses I
have? I went into "licensing" in admin. tools on that particular
server. I don't see anything specifically related to TS licensing.

Any help for the clueless?
 
Re: TS Licensing....Confused

On Mar 19, 10:40 am, nick <cipher7...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's my dilemma....
>
> We have a Win2K TS which has about 5 people connected at any one given
> time. I get a message stating that I am about to exceed my maximum
> concurrent connections. However, how do I tell how many TS licenses I
> have? I went into "licensing" in admin. tools on that particular
> server. I don't see anything specifically related to TS licensing.
>
> Any help for the clueless?

As a follow up to my previous post....

I checked the DC (Win2K3) and found TS Licensing on there. However,
under servers I don't see that particular server even listed there.
Most of my users connect to our public IP from different machines. So
this per seat thing has me kind of confused. Also, why doesn't that
particular TS server even come up?
 
Re: TS Licensing....Confused

nick <cipher7836@gmail.com> wrote on 19 mar 2008 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> On Mar 19, 10:40 am, nick <cipher7...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here's my dilemma....
>>
>> We have a Win2K TS which has about 5 people connected at any
>> one given time. I get a message stating that I am about to
>> exceed my maximum concurrent connections. However, how do I
>> tell how many TS licenses I have? I went into "licensing" in
>> admin. tools on that particular server. I don't see anything
>> specifically related to TS licensing.
>>
>> Any help for the clueless?
>
> As a follow up to my previous post....
>
> I checked the DC (Win2K3) and found TS Licensing on there.
> However, under servers I don't see that particular server even
> listed there. Most of my users connect to our public IP from
> different machines. So this per seat thing has me kind of
> confused. Also, why doesn't that particular TS server even come
> up?

The significant word in your first post is "concurrent". TS
licensing is never per concurrent connection, but server-client
licensing is.
So the warning that you received has most likely nothing to do with
TS CALs, it is about normal server CALs. You can check those in the
Licensing applet in Control Panel.

And about the TS Licensing manager on your DC: your Terminal Server
is not supposed to show up here. What you should see in the TS LS
Manager is the type and number of installed licenses on the DC, and
how many of them are available and issued. For the issued ones, you
can see to which clients they are issued.
_________________________________________________________
Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___
 
Re: TS Licensing....Confused

On Mar 19, 3:59 pm, "Vera Noest [MVP]" <vera.no...@remove-
this.hem.utfors.se> wrote:
> nick <cipher7...@gmail.com> wrote on 19 mar 2008 in
> microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Mar 19, 10:40 am, nick <cipher7...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Here's my dilemma....
>
> >> We have a Win2K TS which has about 5 people connected at any
> >> one given time. I get a message stating that I am about to
> >> exceed my maximum concurrent connections. However, how do I
> >> tell how many TS licenses I have? I went into "licensing" in
> >> admin. tools on that particular server. I don't see anything
> >> specifically related to TS licensing.
>
> >> Any help for the clueless?
>
> > As a follow up to my previous post....
>
> > I checked the DC (Win2K3) and found TS Licensing on there.
> > However, under servers I don't see that particular server even
> > listed there. Most of my users connect to our public IP from
> > different machines. So this per seat thing has me kind of
> > confused. Also, why doesn't that particular TS server even come
> > up?
>
> The significant word in your first post is "concurrent". TS
> licensing is never per concurrent connection, but server-client
> licensing is.
> So the warning that you received has most likely nothing to do with
> TS CALs, it is about normal server CALs. You can check those in the
> Licensing applet in Control Panel.
>
> And about the TS Licensing manager on your DC: your Terminal Server
> is not supposed to show up here. What you should see in the TS LS
> Manager is the type and number of installed licenses on the DC, and
> how many of them are available and issued. For the issued ones, you
> can see to which clients they are issued.
> _________________________________________________________
> Vera Noest
> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
> TS troubleshooting:  http://ts.veranoest.net
> ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

That makes sense. Thanks for the reply. So if I understand this
correctly the system doesn't give a fig about the amount of users just
the amount of systems connecting to that server? We have an SBS2003
box that has licenses per user. Is it possible that the TS has its own
licensing regardless of the SBS2003?
 
Re: TS Licensing....Confused

nick <cipher7836@gmail.com> wrote on 20 mar 2008 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> On Mar 19, 3:59 pm, "Vera Noest [MVP]" <vera.no...@remove-
> this.hem.utfors.se> wrote:
>> nick <cipher7...@gmail.com> wrote on 19 mar 2008 in
>> microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Mar 19, 10:40 am, nick <cipher7...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Here's my dilemma....
>>
>> >> We have a Win2K TS which has about 5 people connected at any
>> >> one given time. I get a message stating that I am about to
>> >> exceed my maximum concurrent connections. However, how do I
>> >> tell how many TS licenses I have? I went into "licensing" in
>> >> admin. tools on that particular server. I don't see anything
>> >> specifically related to TS licensing.
>>
>> >> Any help for the clueless?
>>
>> > As a follow up to my previous post....
>>
>> > I checked the DC (Win2K3) and found TS Licensing on there.
>> > However, under servers I don't see that particular server
>> > even listed there. Most of my users connect to our public IP
>> > from different machines. So this per seat thing has me kind
>> > of confused. Also, why doesn't that particular TS server even
>> > come up?
>>
>> The significant word in your first post is "concurrent". TS
>> licensing is never per concurrent connection, but server-client
>> licensing is.
>> So the warning that you received has most likely nothing to do
>> with TS CALs, it is about normal server CALs. You can check
>> those in the Licensing applet in Control Panel.
>>
>> And about the TS Licensing manager on your DC: your Terminal
>> Server is not supposed to show up here. What you should see in
>> the TS LS Manager is the type and number of installed licenses
>> on the DC, and how many of them are available and issued. For
>> the issued ones, you can see to which clients they are issued.
>> _________________________________________________________
>> Vera Noest
>> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
>> TS troubleshooting:  http://ts.veranoest.net
>> ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___- Hide
>> quoted tex
> t -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> That makes sense. Thanks for the reply. So if I understand this
> correctly the system doesn't give a fig about the amount of
> users just the amount of systems connecting to that server? We
> have an SBS2003 box that has licenses per user. Is it possible
> that the TS has its own licensing regardless of the SBS2003?

You should take this discussion to the SBS newsgroup, since SBS
licensing is special. Check the Licensing applet on both the TS and
(I assume) the SBS to see the licensing mode of both servers.

Here are a lot of licensing Q&A's about SBS and TS:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/evaluation/faq/defau
lt.mspx

_________________________________________________________
Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___
 
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