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#WINDOWS SERVER 2012 RDS PER USER CAL LICENSE#
For a license server running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2, the admin cannot get the PU CAL usage report for a list of domain(s). This script will report the PU CAL usage for all the reachable domains.Ĥ. For a license server running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2, there is a bug causing PU reporting with ‘All Trusted Domain’ scope to fail even if one of the domains in the trusted domain list is unreachable. This script helps the admin track expired CALs as well.ģ. It does not give any data about the PU CALs which were issued earlier but now expired. For a Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server or a Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Session Host Server, the inbox License Manager PU reporting feature only shows CALs that are currently valid. This script will help them address these needs.Ģ. Also, they are not aware of the number of users that have logged in to a given terminal server over a period of time. Hence the customers also have no idea about the number of PU CALs to be purchased. For a Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server, there is no issuance of Per User (PU) CALs. Maybe the definition of permanently is at least 60 days? By the way, Permanent Per Device RDS CALs are valid for 52-89 days, perhaps that is the definition.ġ. I would not worry about it much if you are not frequently reassigning CALs from one user to another and then back again. What about if the same thing happens for only a month duration? Or a week? Or a day? At some point a reasonable person would say that you did not permanently reassign the license. For example, what is the definition of permanently? If an employee switches departments, does not use your RDSH servers for a year, and then starts using them again did you violate the EULA (assuming you reassigned the CAL)? Perhaps you would say no in this example. I will leave it up to you to decide what complies with the license agreement. The above are implementation details of Per User RDS license tracking.
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What this means is that if you have a user account that has not logged on to one of your RDSH servers in the last 61 days they will not show up on the Per User CAL Usage report.
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When a person leaves your company if you delete their AD user account the count of Per User RDS CALs in use will decrease automatically.Ī RDS Per User CAL expires after 60 days of not being used.