On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:50, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Free, Bob <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Still won't help. TS Licensing still has no notion of concurrency.
>
>  To amplify what Bob is saying:
>
>  Every client using your server must have a CAL.  CALs are *not*
> assigned to servers, they're assigned to clients.
>
>  The client that gets the CAL assigned to it can be a warm body
> ("user") or a piece of equipment ("device").  But one of those two
> must have a CAL assigned it.
>
>  If you have one Terminal Server, with 100 users (each with their own
> PC), you need 100 CALs.  Even if you only have *one* person logging on
> at a time, you still need 100 CALs.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing-terminal.aspx
>
> -- Ben


Lovely. I knew there was a reason why we haven't switched away from
our Win2k TS server to something newer. With that, as long as you have
XP or newer, no separate TS license needed.

Kurt

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