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I have ample licensing for my terminal server clients. However I have a remote client that is getting a temp license and getting the warning that it expires in x days.

Since I am new to this job and my first experience with Terminal Server, does it not release unused licenses to be reissued and is there a way to release them.

thank you all for whatever help you can give.

Mike

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by rabbit_runner

NO, Microsoft has set up TS so that licenses are NOT released. When the systems were configed, any computer that accessed TS will have used up one license. Also any guest or temporary computers that accesses TS will use up another license.

We have had to call Microsoft and explain what happened and they have then issued a new certificate to compensate for the 'mis-applied' licenses. It is a hassle. But the only way I know how to correct.

I have heard that some new versions of 2000 or XP have corrected this problem. But you may have an earlier version that is not correctable, except to call Microsoft.

Best of luck

by curacao_dejavu

To reset the information:

Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click Services.

Click Terminal Server Licensing, and then click Stop.

Using Windows NT Explorer, open the Wtsrv\System32\Lserver folder, where Wtsrv is the folder in which Terminal Server is installed.

Rename the Hydra.mdb file to Hydra.old.

Expand the Hyrda.md_ file from the Terminal Server CD-ROM to Hydra.mdb in the Lserver folder.

For example, use the following command to expand the file

expand CD-ROM:\i386\hydra.md_ c:\wtsrv\system32\lserver\hydra.mdb
where CD-ROM is the CD-ROM drive letter.

Start the Terminal Server Licensing service. The Terminal Server Licensing database is blank.

For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q187614 Removing Terminal Server Licenses from an RDP Client

make sure you are compliant with the licensing.
for that check the Article ID: Q187629

Leopold

by shmaltz

There is a fix from Microsft that works on Windows 2000 Server (not sure about NT). That will releas a license after it has not been used for an x amount of days (I think 90).
The following KB article will tell you what the fix does:
Q287687

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