Here's a list of the various components you need to make sure your Terminal Services infrastructure is properly licensed:. If you plan to run Citrix on top of Terminal Services, licensing gets even messier. At that point, make sure to include your licensing vendor in the discussion to make percent sure you're getting what you think you're getting!
Every Terminal Services installation requires the inclusion of a licensing server that handles the distribution of tokens that provide access to Terminal Services. Don't install Terminal Services on a domain controller. You need as much available horsepower as possible for Terminal Services, and running it on a domain controller can result in fewer resources available to your clients. Select Terminal Server from the list of available roles to add to the server Figure B.
Click Next. Note that Terminal Services installation requires a server restart; so close open programs and make sure that users are disconnected before finishing the installation. At this point, the server restarts automatically.
When you log back in to the machine, you're notified that this server now runs Terminal Services and that you need to activate a licensing server within days. After days, the terminal server will stop accepting unlicensed connections. Activating a licensing server involves first installing the Terminal Services licensing component and then activating the server with Microsoft. The server activation downloads a digital certificate from the Microsoft Clearinghouse that uniquely identifies this particular terminal server.
To perform these steps, do the following:. Select the activation method—automatic over the Internet, by telephone, or over the Web—and click Next Figure E. An automatic registration is the default and requires a server capable of initiating SSL connections to the Microsoft Clearinghouse. If your server can't access the Internet, you won't be able to use this method. You need to provide some information for the activation to proceed, including your name, company name, and country Figure F.
If you like, you can provide more information, such as your address, e-mail address, etc. After you do so, click Next. After you've supplied the required information, you'll see a summary screen indicating that your server is activated by Microsoft.
At this point, you have the option to add client licenses via a wizard. You can do this only if you've purchased Terminal Services client licensing packs from Microsoft.
Each license pack includes some type of product key or agreement number that you must enter in order to install it. To install licenses after the initial installation, access the Terminal Services Licensing utility, right-click the licensing server, and select Install Licenses. After installation of these two Windows componets and activate it by Telephone, the Windows become a Licensed Terminal Server, right? Is this in this Terminal Server or the 5 clients which wants to access this Terminal Server?
I obseved that in the administrator tools of a Win, there is Terminal Server Licensing even you are not installing the Terminal Server and Terminal Server License in this Win server.
If in this case, I will need to find 5 clients and install the same key? Let's say, the correct way is to install the 5 pack key in the Terminal Server per device option. Is these 5 clients wil be selected in the order of first come first serve during the application running in the same domain? So, it will not accept any more connection if the 5 clients quota is reached, right? When you mentioned " I have a CAL 5 packs key" - what is the exact wording on that key?
If you're not going to run Terminal Services for users, you don't need Terminal Server licensing. If you are going to use Terminal Services, 1 server in your environment should run the Terminal Services Licensing service. Type the license server ID that is provided by the customer service representative, and then click Next. After a license server is activated, it becomes the registrar for Terminal Services client licenses.
While you are waiting to complete the activation process, your license server can issue temporary licenses for clients that allow the use of Terminal Services servers for up to days. You can change Licensing Wizard properties, such as the connection method and company information that you set during the activation process by using Terminal Server Licensing. To do so:. Right-click the license server you want to modify, and then click Properties.
To see a step-by-step guide for deploying Terminal Services Licensing, visit the following Microsoft web site:. Overview You must activate a license server before it can issue licenses to Terminal Services clients. In the console tree, expand All servers. Click Next. On the "Completing the Terminal Server Activation Wizard" page, do one of the following: To install client license key packs for your license server, click Next.
Close the Terminal Server Licensing window. Troubleshooting After a license server is activated, it becomes the registrar for Terminal Services client licenses. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first.
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