Do you have your 2012 server configured as per-user or per-device? On 2008 R2 and prior you have to select, and whoever did it before me didn't understand. So now servers that have user CALS are not issuing those CALS and I have to move them to per-user defined servers.
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Ryan Finnesey <[email protected]> wrote: > I have setup a 2012 RDS box and am using both users CALs and Device > CALs. I just had to enter my agreement number. I am not 100% if we are > within compliance but it is working at the technical level **** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jon Harris > *Sent:* Monday, June 3, 2013 7:06 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: [NTSysADM] Remote desktop licensing questions**** > > ** ** > > You are going to need to sit down and figure out which is best for the > company/individual servers. The last time I checked on this you could not > use both per user and per device on the same server. You could mix the two > depending on the needs of the company just not on the same "machine". > I ended up when I retired our 2003 servers having to purchase 2008 licenses > (EDU contract so depending on your contract maybe you can just transfer > your 2003 to 2008 but I kind of doubt it). Then you need to determine how > many licenses you will need for each. FYI in my case I went with per user > as some of the users had multiple machines off and on. The price was the > same though for both. > > Jon**** > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 11:55:58 -0400 > Subject: [NTSysADM] Remote desktop licensing questions > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]**** > > Hi Folks,**** > > ** ** > > In my last job we had per-user terminal server/remote desktop licensing. > At my current job they use 2003 per-user licenses for staff and 2003/2008 > per-device licenses for machinery equipment. From what I can tell there > was not any planning involved with license design. Here's what I see:**** > > ** ** > > Several 2008 R2 servers with per-user and per-device licenses installed. > These servers are in "per-device" mode.**** > > ** ** > > GPO is not used for licensing. Servers are not uniformly configured for > licensing. **** > > ** ** > > I can fix all of this with a GPO. My questions are these:**** > > - for servers in per-device mode, are the per-user licenses of any value > or just wasted? **** > > - I need to have different license servers for per-user and per-device, > correct? In doing this, should I have one GPO for per-device license > servers, and another for per-user servers?**** > > ** ** > > Thanks**** > > ** ** > > ** ** >
