Microsoft 2008 terminal server cals

Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. Now would you recommend Per User or Per Device? Does anyone know when that occurs where the CALs are stored? Your IT director might have been confused with using 2k8 cals with 2k3. Device CALs are used when you will have lots of users that use the same machines which is rare. Remember once you set it you can't change it. Pure Capsaicin.

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So, when you follow the above instructions, you wont need the 25 char key typical retail install key , you will need the 8 digit License number and the 15 digit Activation string. The file is a csv and the first two numbers in the row are the keys you need for the above instructions.

Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Server TechCenter. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. From the list of roles select the check box next to Terminal Services and click on the Next button. Read the information screen and then proceed to the Select Service Roles screen. Check the box next to TS Licensing and click next. As described above, choose whether the server is to be accessible to terminal servers in the same workgroup, domain or domain forest as the license server.

Click Next followed by Install to initiate the installation process. Once the TS License Server has been installed the next task is to activate it. This task is performed using the TS License Manager which may be launched by running tsconfig. Once started, the TS License Manager dialog will appear containing a list of detected license servers on the network. The only license server listed in the following figure is the one on the local server.

Because this has yet to be activated it is listed with a red circle containing an X mark next to it:. To activate a license server, right click on the server in the list and select Activate Server. After reading the welcome screen click Next to proceed to the Connection Method screen.