Windows 2008 server remote desktop licensing

The installation can be performed using by selecting Roles from the tree in the left hand panel of the Server Manager tool. If the server is already configured with the Remote Desktop Services role, scroll down the Roles summary page to the Remote Desktop Services section click on the Add Role Services link. In the resulting dialog titled Select Role Services select the check box next to Remote Desktop Licensing and then click Next to proceed to the Configure discovery scope for RD licensing screen as illustrated in the following figure:.

In the first version of Windows Server , it was necessary to specify a method by which RD Session Host servers or Terminal Servers as they were known then would auto-detect the server running the licensing server. With Windows Server R2, this approach is discouraged, and Microsoft now recommends that each RD Session Host be manually configured with information about the license server.

In keeping with this recommendation, leave the Configure a discovery scope for this license server option unselected. Note, however, that this setting may be changed at a later time if required via the RD Licensing Manager tool. Click Next to proceed to the confirmation screen. On a server which is does not have the Remote Desktop Services role installed, open the Server Manager, select Roles from the tree in the left hand panel and select Add Roles. Click Next on the initial screen if it appears so that the Select Server Roles screen is displayed.

From the list of roles select the check box next to Remote Desktop 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 Remote Desktop Licensing , click Next and follow the steps outlined above.

Then click Next to complete the license installation process. When you are done specifying license servers, click OK. Specifying licensing mode and license server for many RDS session host servers manually, can be time consuming. It must be configured in a GPO that is applied to the license server.

Skip to content. After restart Remote Desktop connection will be lost, but will it be restored later? Remote Desktop IP Virtualization allows the user to assign IP addresses to remote desktop connections on a per-session or per-program basis:. Some programs require a unique IP address for each instance of the application. Prior to Windows Server R2, every session on a remote desktop server shared the same IP address, resulting in compatibility issues for these applications.

In Windows Server R2, you can install a program on the Remote Desktop Server just as you would install the program on a local desktop. Ensure, however, that you install the program for all users and install all components of the program locally on the Remote Desktop Server.

For applications that required per-user configurations, such as Microsoft Office Word, an administrator needed to pre-install the application, and application developers needed to test these applications on both the remote desktop client and the Remote Desktop Session Host.

Windows Installer RDS Compatibility feature allows identifying and installing missing per-user configurations for multiple users simultaneously and makes the application installation experience on Remote Desktop Server similar to that on a local desktop. Follow this section's instructions carefully. Serious problems can occur if the registry is modified incorrectly. Before you starty modifying the registry, back up the registry so you can restore it in case something goes wrong.

To resolve this problem, back up and then remove the X Certificate registry keys, restart the computer, and then reactivate the RD Licensing server. Follow these steps. If you verify that the licensing configuration is correct, but the system still isn't correctly issuing CALs, follow these steps:.

The top window of the RD Licensing Diagnoser lists problems that the diagnoser has detected. For example, you might see a message that resembles the following:. The RD Licensing Diagnoser Information section shows more information about the problem, including its possible causes and the steps to follow to remediate it.

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