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by zsajac

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I have a Win2k terminal server that ran out of available licenses.
It started to assign temporary licenses to additional clients that tried to connect.
Now some of the licenses have expired and the clients with expired licenses cannot connect to my terminal server. I then loaded the necessary patches to fix the reissuance of licenses and eventually loaded SP3. (Which also fixes this problem). Then I had Microsoft Clearing House reissue my ?lost? licenses. Now there are available licenses but still the clients with expired licenses could not connect.
I then renamed the client machine and deleted the terminal server key in the registry under HKEY Local Machine\Software\Microsoft\MSLicensing\Store
Then tried to reconnect but still to no avail. Theses are on Win?95 and ?98 clients.
Can anybody help???

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by judson

I run terminal Sefver on Win 2k Also and ran into the same problem. Microsoft fixed this issue in Service Pack 3. It allows you to designate a time limit on terminal access. After your sesignated time it will reset the license for a new client computer. Install SP3 and set the time limits ... it will reset your available licenses in due time (hint: set it for 1 day .. let them all reset, and then change it to a less concervative limit)

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