for the most part, in my experience, per user works best (unless you are running a 24x7 operation where per device is better)
but I didn't read the whole thread, as being a hockey junky, I'm watching the Boston Pittsburgh game Jean-Paul Natola From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Remote desktop licensing questions Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 02:25:41 +0000 I will check when I am back Friday Sent from my iPad On Jun 4, 2013, at 9:26 AM, "Tom Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: 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
