No one is ever 100% sure about Microsoft licensing. Not even Microsoft. Call
up 10 different Microsoft licensing specialists (not partners, Microsoft
employees) and you'll likely get at least 6 different answers. I usually take
the single answer with the most hits and move forward. :)
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those who understand binary and those who don't.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Dave Lum
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 2:48 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RDS license question
If I understand MS licensing correctly, you will need an RDS CAL for each user
that will be connecting, even if they're just RDP-ing to their PC.
But, I am not 100% sure...
Dave
> I'm just trying to allow users to RDP into their machines, without
> opening 3389. Also the site only has one static so RDP would to
> multiple machines would be hard unless I change the port numbers.
>
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 10:32 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RDS license question
>
> The license server needs to be activated, in order to allow a computer
> to establish a remote connection to a and RDS server.
>
> if you are not installing an RD server what function will the gateway
> server?
> I guess my question is , what exactly are you trying to do that can't
> be accomplished by FW rules or simple port forwarding?
>
>
> Jean-Paul Natola
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RDS license question
> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:15:01 +0000
> Excellent point on the administration part.
>
> Thanks Webster for answering my question. Maybe I can ask the next
> question that piggy backs off that. If the RDS server is setup as a
> RDS gateway only, does the licensing manager or CALS even need to be
> installed?
>
>
> From:
> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:54 AM
> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RDS license question
>
> I believe, and someone chime in if I'm mistaken,
>
> The two cals that "come with it " are for administration only,
> Administrators don't get counted as RDP users ( I learned that when i
> started with Citrix years ago ) If you really want to see what is
> allocated/assigned goto TSlicensing and run a report , it will show
> how many user liceses are in assigned.
>
> here is a sample i just pulled
>
> [https://a.gfx.ms/i_safe.gif]
>
>
>
>
>
> Jean-Paul Natola
>
> ________________________________
> From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: [NTSysADM] RDS license question
> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:53:22 +0000
> I'm sure this is a simple question. Server 2008R2 with RDS installed.
> It has 3 User CAL's installed.
>
> I'm testing the CALS and now have 6 different RDP sessions that are
> active. Shouldn't I have hit a limit here, 3 plus the 2 that come
> with servers by default? Thanks for any clarifications.
>
> Jimmy
>
>
