My company is a small business that offers certain clinical applications via remote desktop. We have 7 terminal servers, and clients access them through both VPN IP address connections, and through external DNS hostnames. We do this so our servers available from hotel rooms, at home, etc. and the business model works for us and our clients.
One of the problems we face is the TS licensing. We want to keep it per device, because we work with nursing and hospice companies who have many employees and fewer computers, this helps keep their cost down. However, using windows server 2003, the Licensing manager is not very friendly, all we see are computer names. not a big deal, but we’ve come to find we cant trust our clients to tell us about every new computer they use it, so we keep running out of TS license and we are having trouble finding out where they re going. Then, we’ll have people who need to login with computers we know about the can’t get in cause we ran out of licenses. Is there any way I can control which computers log in my servers without changing the business model? Like maybe a computer cant login if it doesn’t have a certain key or certificate?