I am a bit confused re. TS Licensing. I know I need to
install Terminal Services on the Application Server and TS
Licensing on the SBS. However we have bought some XP
workstations and we have a Volume License for Win XP Pro
for some workstations that I will upgrade after they are
connected to the servers. However when I activate the
Terminal Services, I know I need the License Server ID (ie
SBS ID)but I also need a License code for the Terminal
Services client license pack but I thought I did not need
to buy TS CAL's for XP Pro workstations.

If I needed to use ODBC from a Win 98 machine to access an
Access database table on the Application server, would I
need a TS CAL for that 98 machine ?

Could someone please explain this TS licensing issue ?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Regards
Antony

Re: TS Licensing Help by Javier

Javier
Tue Dec 23 07:50:24 CST 2003

Antony,

If your terminal server is Windows 2000 Srv... then you don't need TS CALs
for XP Pro and 2000 workstations. The TS server will issue a free CAL from
it's internal CAL pool for those workstations. Any other workstation OS will
need a TS CAL (i.e. Win9x).

If your terminal server is Windows 2003 Srv... then you need TS CALs for
everything, except OS with Software Assurance and WinXP Pro purchased before
Win2k3 launch date (in which case you need to call MS to get those free TS
CALs, AFAIK).

Things get more complicated if you have a SBS2k Srv + Win2k3Srv TS... since
you also need Win2k3 CALs.

Confused yet? :-)

--
-Javier

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"antony.catella@kingleaplants.co.uk" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message news:086901c3c94d$5b0b0720$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I am a bit confused re. TS Licensing. I know I need to
> install Terminal Services on the Application Server and TS
> Licensing on the SBS. However we have bought some XP
> workstations and we have a Volume License for Win XP Pro
> for some workstations that I will upgrade after they are
> connected to the servers. However when I activate the
> Terminal Services, I know I need the License Server ID (ie
> SBS ID)but I also need a License code for the Terminal
> Services client license pack but I thought I did not need
> to buy TS CAL's for XP Pro workstations.
>
> If I needed to use ODBC from a Win 98 machine to access an
> Access database table on the Application server, would I
> need a TS CAL for that 98 machine ?
>
> Could someone please explain this TS licensing issue ?
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Antony