![]() ![]() This blog article will guide you through the steps of setting up Remote Desktop Licensing or Terminal Services Licensing as it’s known in previous versions of Windows Server. You’ve decided to move from Windows 2003 R2 to 2008 R2 domain controllers and you want to run your terminal services licensing on the new domain controllers. You can run the licensing for all your terminal servers operating with Windows 2000 Server and newer Windows Server versions on Windows Server 2008 R2. On the domain controllers where you want to install the Terminal Services Licensing component, open Server Manager and select “Add Roles”. Then select the “Remote Desktop Services” role and click next (twice): Don’t worry, this will not turn your domain controller into a terminal server. Select “Remote Desktop Licensing” and click next: I recommend taking a look at this before choosing one of these options. Select the appropriate option for your environment, click next, and then click install: Open RD Licensing Manager. Right click the licensing server and select “Activate Server”: There will be a couple of screens to enter information on that is specific to your organization. Enter this information and click next on each screen. Once you’ve completed the activation process, click next and the license installation wizard will begin. If you have not purchased licenses yet, uncheck this checkmark and click finish. Select the type of licenses you purchased from the drop down and click next: There will be a couple of screens to enter information on that is specific to the licensing you purchased. Enter this information and click next on each screen. The final screen will show that the licenses have been successfully installed: You can now see the licenses from within RD License Manager. This server has licenses for Windows 2000 and Windows 2008 Terminal Servers as shown below. If you have existing licenses for Windows 2003 terminal servers, you would just install them using the same process and then they will show up in RD License Manager: If a yellow warning sign is shown next to the server name, the remote desktop licensing service will need to be restarted before the server will start issuing licenses: To restart the service, open an administrative command prompt and run. We have a new instance of 2008 R2. Installed CALs for RDS and activated the server online. When you launch the RD Licensing Manager from Administrative Tools – Remote Desktop Services everything looks good and activated licenses are showing correctly. On the other hand, we keep on getting the warning that the server is running on the grace period. And the Licensing Diagnosis (RDS) under Server Management shows that 0 RDS licenses are available and that the RDS Host server is not configured. We were told by Dell support that it’s safe to ignore those warning. Anyone has any suggestions? ![]() Sep 18, 2013. We now need to configure server 2012 remote desktop licensing.You will need to purchase Remote Desktop CALs these are concurrent which means you buy the amount of licenses for the amount of people that will use remote desktop. Or if you have only 100 devices that will access remote desktop then. May 29, 2017 In this document you will find how to install Remote desktop Serivces Role and then how to activate the license of RDS in Server. In this guide you will. Terminal server hack - FOR TESTING ONLY (Activate CAL) Please note to use these licenses only for educational and testing use. SERVER Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > Add or Remove Windows Components'. Add 'Terminal Server' & Terminal Server Licensing' Default licensing mode is per device as we will need to for actiivation 2. SERVER Start Terminal Server Licensing (Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services >Terminal Server Licensing) if it is not started 3. SERVER Go to the Terminal Server Licensing, Right-click on Terminal Server > Properties > Installation Method: Select Installation Method 'Web Browser' 4. SERVER Go to next tab 'Required Information'. Fill all 4 fields with some none important information. Write somewhere TS ID on the bottom of that window 5. SERVER Right-click on Terminal Server and select Activate Server. Terminal Server License Server Activation Wizard will start. Read > press next 6. SERVER Select activation method 'Web Browser' press next 7. ![]() WEB BROWSER Go to to get license server ID 8. WEB BROWSER Select 'Activate a license server' press next 9. WEB BROWSER Fill out required fields with some information that makes sense. Choose country USA. Use Product ID use from step 6, press next on the bottom 10.WEB BROWSER Press next one more time on the bottom 11.WEB BROWSER If you did every thing right then you gonna get license server ID key (enter this information in your terminal server activation window), but do not close window we will need this for client access licenses (CALs). If everything is OK you will now have Terminal Server License Server Activated. 12.WEB BROWSER Next in the 'Do you wish to install license tokens at this time?' Select 'Yes' 13.WEB BROWSER Fill out the required fields on the Microsoft web page. License Server ID get from Terminal Server CAL Installation Wizard. Important is to set License Program to 'Other agreement'. 14.WEB BROWSER Choose Product Type Windows 2003 Terminal server Per Device CAL, Fill quantity (I put around 100) and Agreement Number 6565792 15.WEB BROWSER Press next once more on the bottom 16.WEB BROWSER you are gonna get your license key pack ID what you need to insert to Terminal Server CAL Installation Wizard > close window do not press finish, but first write down license key pack ID 17.SERVER Insert license key pack ID into your server and finish wizard. Terminal server hack - FOR TESTING ONLY (Activate CAL) Please note to use these licenses only for educational and testing use. SERVER Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > Add or Remove Windows Components'. Add 'Terminal Server' & Terminal Server Licensing' Default licensing mode is per device as we will need to for actiivation 2. SERVER Start Terminal Server Licensing (Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services >Terminal Server Licensing) if it is not started 3. SERVER Go to the Terminal Server Licensing, Right-click on Terminal Server > Properties > Installation Method: Select Installation Method 'Web Browser' 4. SERVER Go to next tab 'Required Information'. Fill all 4 fields with some none important information. Write somewhere TS ID on the bottom of that window 5. SERVER Right-click on Terminal Server and select Activate Server. Terminal Server License Server Activation Wizard will start. Read > press next 6. SERVER Select activation method 'Web Browser' press next 7. WEB BROWSER Go to to get license server ID 8. WEB BROWSER Select 'Activate a license server' press next 9. WEB BROWSER Fill out required fields with some information that makes sense. Choose country USA. Use Product ID use from step 6, press next on the bottom 10.WEB BROWSER Press next one more time on the bottom 11.WEB BROWSER If you did every thing right then you gonna get license server ID key (enter this information in your terminal server activation window), but do not close window we will need this for client access licenses (CALs). If everything is OK you will now have Terminal Server License Server Activated. 12.WEB BROWSER Next in the 'Do you wish to install license tokens at this time?' Select 'Yes' 13.WEB BROWSER Fill out the required fields on the Microsoft web page. License Server ID get from Terminal Server CAL Installation Wizard. Important is to set License Program to 'Other agreement'. 14.WEB BROWSER Choose Product Type Windows 2003 Terminal server Per Device CAL, Fill quantity (I put around 100) and Agreement Number 6565792 15.WEB BROWSER Press next once more on the bottom 16.WEB BROWSER you are gonna get your license key pack ID what you need to insert to Terminal Server CAL Installation Wizard > close window do not press finish, but first write down license key pack ID 17.SERVER Insert license key pack ID into your server and finish wizard.
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