David Guest wrote:
Tony Eviston wrote:
This looks like the definitive reference on the obscure subject of TS
licencing from NT4 to 2003:
http://www.brianmadden.com/content/article/The-Ultimate-Guide-to-Windows-2003-Terminal-Server-Licensing
"Prior to Windows Server 2003, client workstations that ran Windows NT,
2000, or XP Professional had the right to obtain a “free” TS CAL. The
only requirement was to purchase a TS CAL for client devices that ran an
operating system lower than the Terminal Server operating system. For
example, Windows 2000 Professional workstations did not require purchase
of a TS CAL to connect to a Windows 2000 Terminal Server since Windows
2000 client devices had the right to obtain a free Windows 2000 TS CAL.
Also, since these licenses were backwards compatible, the Windows 2000
TS CAL would also apply if you were using a Windows XP Professional
client to connect to a Windows 2000 Terminal Server.
Since Windows XP was released over a year before Windows Server 2003,
many people bought Windows XP Professional with the assumption that it
would include a “free” Windows Server 2003 TS CAL. However, with the
release of Windows 2003, Microsoft removed the “free” TS CAL license
that was built-in to Windows XP Professional. Unfortunately, this
announcement came well after many organizations bought multiple copies
of Windows XP assuming that its free TS CAL would work with Windows 2003
Terminal Servers.
Negative response to this announcement prompted Microsoft grant a free
Windows 2003 TS CAL to anyone who owned a Windows XP Professional
license on April 23, 2003 (the day before the release of Windows Server
2003.Does your copy of Windows XP come with a free Windows Server 2003
TS CAL? If you bought it before April 24, 2003, then it does. If you
bought if after that it does not, and you’ll have to buy a Windows 2003
TS CAL. (If you had TS CALs that were enrolled in Microsoft Enterprise
Agreements or Software Assurance, then you automatically qualified for
the Windows 2003 TS CAL upgrade.)
Interestingly, the added TS CAL costs of Terminal Server on Windows
Server 2003 has upset some companies so much that they are claiming it
as the sole reason that they will keep their Terminal Servers running on
Windows 2000."
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David,
I've got some doubts on this one, having run a run a test 2000 TS server
and 2000 client set some time ago. If you set up a 2000 server as a TS
server, and don't use the licencing facility, it will run for about 3
months. allowing, in my case 2000 clients to function with it, then it
will stop.
The floppy used to set-up the clients for TS originates in the TS
server, and there was no reference or suggestion that it wouldn't need
TS client licences for the server, because the workstation as 2000 Pro.
I may have missed something in all this, but I'd be fascinated to know
what. Oh, and the server ran flakily when set up as a TS server, so much
so that I reinstalled it without the TS setup after TS stopped.
An interesting experiment, that helped me decide that TS isn't worth the
trouble. Some support firms use it with old clients to save money, but
the practice becomes too server-centric with no hope of employing an
emergency server in a server-failure, and often poor reliability from
the clients. Dedicated thin clients make sense, except workstation
prices are so low now.
Greg
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