TS Licensing Scenario

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Hi Guys,

Have a quick question. Have a global single AD spanning 6 Global Sites. Each
site has TS Servers in place and working. The UK Site also has the TS
Licensing Server (150 TS CALS). All The TS Servers are in Per User Mode. I am
dropping Licensing configuration i.e. mode and license server name, via Group
Policy

Can someone let me know what happens if the the Licensing server becomes
unavailable for any short amount of time (1 min to upto 24 hours)... Will no
one be able to access the Terminal Services environment until it comes back
i.e. will all access be cut off to the TS environments?

Lozza
 
Re: TS Licensing Scenario

Client TS CALs ar valid up to 89 days.
If the license server goes down, clients that already have licenses are
OK. New clients and clients with expired CALs won't be able to connect.


http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ts/cc671614.aspx
Please read How do I configure Terminal Services Licensing servers for
redundancy or high availability? on that link


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Frane Borozan
Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Server user & application logging
http://www.terminalserviceslog.com
 
Re: TS Licensing Scenario

Lozza mentioned, that TS are in Per User Mode, Hence even if License Server
is not available for a short period of time, connections to the TS will be
allowed.
This is because TS Per User mode is not enforced.

This is true for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.

Ratnesh


"Frane Borozan" <frane.borozan@ EXTRA . gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Client TS CALs ar valid up to 89 days.
> If the license server goes down, clients that already have licenses are
> OK. New clients and clients with expired CALs won't be able to connect.
>
>
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ts/cc671614.aspx
> Please read How do I configure Terminal Services Licensing servers for
> redundancy or high availability? on that link
>
>
> --
> Frane Borozan
> Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Server user & application
> logging
> http://www.terminalserviceslog.com
 
Re: TS Licensing Scenario

Are you sure about that Ratnesh? It has been experience that TS still does
a check for the license server and if it doesn't find it in 1 to 2 hours,
the TS box will disable TS logins. This has been true for Win2k3 and both
per user/device modes. I don't know about Win2k3.


Jeff Pitsch
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

"Ratnesh Yadav[MSFT]" <ratneshyadav@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Lozza mentioned, that TS are in Per User Mode, Hence even if License
> Server is not available for a short period of time, connections to the TS
> will be allowed.
> This is because TS Per User mode is not enforced.
>
> This is true for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
>
> Ratnesh
>
>
> "Frane Borozan" <frane.borozan@ EXTRA . gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:10togtrgp6psm$.qnqwjwsk06cv.dlg@40tude.net...
>> Client TS CALs ar valid up to 89 days.
>> If the license server goes down, clients that already have licenses are
>> OK. New clients and clients with expired CALs won't be able to connect.
>>
>>
>> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ts/cc671614.aspx
>> Please read How do I configure Terminal Services Licensing servers for
>> redundancy or high availability? on that link
>>
>>
>> --
>> Frane Borozan
>> Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Server user & application
>> logging
>> http://www.terminalserviceslog.com
>
 
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