That's because XP had a built-in license, AKA desktop equivalency, for W2K and 2003 up to April 24, 2003. In addition to the creation of User CAL and External Connector options, W2K3 Terminal Server removed Windows desktop equivalency - the provision by which the latest version of the Windows desktop OS could be used to substitute for a Terminal Server CAL. We had to count how many copies we had purchased prior to that date and were given CALs for them. My W2k3 license server has like 4 kinds of licenses on it.
Bottom line for 2003, if the server is in per user, it checks for the existence of a Licensing Service and that's it. At that point they (per-user) are not truly accounted for. -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 1:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: TS Licensing 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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
