That's crazy enough to work :) -----Original Message----- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 6:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Windows 2000 terminal services again
I am addressing the technicalities of how the licensing service works which I am intimately familiar with. The nuances of licensing and legality in general are an imbroglio and not my ball of wax. In our case, we use the OS CAL's for the 2000/XPPro systems and purchase TS CAL's for the downlevel clients (This is only for the 2000 Terminal Servers). It gets even more confusing when you go to 2003 because XPPro was grandfathered up untill the release of 2003 server and there is a mechanism to 'claim' those CAL's and apply them. http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/howtobuy/pricing/tsfaq.asp Three product licenses are associated with Terminal Services in Windows 2000. Windows 2000 Server is required for hosting Terminal Services sessions. A Windows 2000 CAL or a BackOffice(r) CAL is required to access Windows 2000 Terminal Services and other basic network/application services in the Windows 2000 operating system. A Windows 2000 Terminal Services CAL, a Windows 2000 Professional license or a Windows XP Professional license is required to run applications on a Windows 2000 Server via Terminal Services. Additionally, you are required to ensure that the applications you are running on the terminal server are properly licensed. Q. Do Windows XP and Windows 2000 Professional have built-in Terminal Services CALs? A. No, Microsoft's desktop operating system products (including Windows XP and Windows 2000 Professional) do not have a "built-in" Terminal Services CAL. Rather, the Windows 2000 server issues machines running Windows 2000/XP Professional with a "free" Terminal Services CAL from its built-in pool (and its use is permitted under the Windows 2000 Server EULA). Windows XP Professional is a successor to Windows 2000 Professional, and as a result does not need a Terminal Services CAL to access a Windows 2000 Server running Terminal Services. However, Windows XP Home Edition is not a successor to Windows 2000 Professional (rather, it is a successor to Windows Millennium Edition) and therefore does require a Terminal Services CAL in order to access Windows 2000 Terminal Services. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 3:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Windows 2000 terminal services again So if I have win2k/xp clients, I don't need to buy a license!?? I'm confused. I thought there was a temp license that was given to these clients and would expire after a time period whereupon I would have to buy real licenses... Thanks -------------------------- Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld (www.BlackBerry.net) List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
