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Friday, February 15, 2008 12:18 PM

Manual Revocation of Client Access Licenses (CALs)

Prior to Windows Server 2008, there was no way for administrators to manually revoke issued licenses. Issued licenses would automatically expire after a random period between 52-89 days and become part of the available license pool. In some cases, an
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Friday, February 01, 2008 10:50 AM

Licensing Diagnosis: Problems and Resolutions

Licensing problems and resolutions for the terminal server Licensing Diagnosis is capable of diagnosing potential problems in a typical terminal server/ license server deployment. Here is the list of the potential problems along with their suggested resolutions.
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Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:55 PM

Summary of Licensing Diagnosis 2

Understanding the licensing state of a terminal server though Licensing Diagnosis Summary of Licensing Diagnosis is a summing up of various factors such as the Terminal Services Configuration and License Server information, and is a good indication of
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Friday, November 30, 2007 5:06 PM

Terminal Services Licensing Diagnosis Snap-in extension

Identify potential licensing problems for the terminal server. In Windows server 2008, a new snap-in extension, Licensing Diagnosis, has been added to the terminal server configuration snap-in to assist the administrator in managing and maintaining terminal
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Friday, August 10, 2007 4:06 AM

Generating Per Device license usage reports for TS License Servers running Windows Server 2008

In an earlier post , we showed how to create a per user license usage report in Windows Server 2008. Below we show how to create a per device license usage report. On Windows Server 2003, a Per Device Terminal Services Client Access License (TS CAL) usage
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Monday, August 06, 2007 9:43 PM

Terminal Services Per User Licensing Usage Tracking

Terminal Services Per User Licensing Usage Tracking Prior to "Windows Server 2008" there was no way for administrators to check the usage of Terminal Services per user licenses. Terminal Services licensing in Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 enables administrators
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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 6:58 PM

What’s new in Terminal Services Licensing for Longhorn? Part 6

Requesting Beta CALs To try out the Beta versions of TS Licensing you do not need to purchase CALs from Microsoft. Instead, you can install test license codes from Microsoft so that you can install Windows Server “Longhorn” beta CALs on a Windows Server
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 4:00 AM

What’s new in Terminal Services Licensing for Longhorn? Part 5

WMI Providers for administration With Longhorn, we added support for WMI providers for Terminal Services Licensing. With the use of these WMI providers, administrators can now script tasks that were in the past available only through the UI. Some of the
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 5:45 AM

What’s new in Terminal Services Licensing for Longhorn? Part 4

Diagnosing issues in the Licensing environment Prior to Longhorn, there was no easy way to see which License Servers a Terminal Server would contact and whether those License Servers had enough CALs available for consumption. If connections got denied,
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:38 PM

What’s new in Terminal Services Licensing for Longhorn? Part 3

Improvements to the License Manager User Interface to easily spot configuration issues When you are setting up a license server in the Domain or Enterprise mode, you could run into configuration errors. Currently there is no easy way to find such errors.
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Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:23 AM

What’s new in Terminal Services Licensing for Longhorn? Part 2

Support for manual revocation of licenses Earlier, it was not possible to revoke a license issued to a client. Issued licenses would automatically expire after a random period between 52-89 days and become part of the available license pool. Some customers
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Thursday, April 05, 2007 2:41 AM

What’s new in Terminal Services Licensing for Longhorn? Part 1

Terminal Services Licensing in Longhorn Beta 3 has several new features that will enable better deployment and management of Licensing environments. We addressed several customer requests in this new release of Longhorn such as per-user tracking and reporting,
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 1:47 AM

Terminal Services Licensing TechCenter

Terminal Services Licensing is a topic that we know many of you are, well lets say, passionate about. To make it easier to find key information on licensing we have created a new Terminal Services Licensing TechCenter on TechNet– the TechCenters are where
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 9:39 PM

Manually Publishing and Un-publishing Terminal Server License Servers

Terminal Servers automatically discover TS License Servers available in a deployment by querying the Active Directory Catalog for a list of license servers. This list is in the "TS-Enterprise-License-Server" object in the Catalog Server. Typically, License
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007 9:41 PM

Resources for diagnosing TS Licensing Problems

If you have deployed Terminal Server Licensing and are running into any issues with it, most likely they will be due to Client connection failures, license server activation failures, license issuance and upgrade problems. In this article, we discuss
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