additional CALs vanishing from Windows 2003 SBS

[rwhall51]

I have a wild issue with additional user license that I have added to a Win 2003 SBS. It comes with 5, but I need 20 available. I add the additional 15 in the license wizard under Admin tools. After a month or two a license error shows that there are not enough licenses. I look at the license wizard and the ones that were added are now gone. Has anyone seen this before?

 

[snootalope]

I've seen it once.. the licenses would always disappear after a reboot of the server. After working with M$, I finally said the hell with it and rebuilt the machine. That fixed it for me, but the rebuild was a last resort.

Sorry i can't be any further help on troubleshooting though..

-snoots

 

[ADB100]

I had this when I installed a new DC and removed the old one. I sucessfully transferred all the Roles onto the new server but something wasn't quite right.
Check in DNS that the server is registering all its names correctly - this was my problem. The various '_kerberos' and 'kpassword' entries were not present. These are created by the Netlogon service and although the service was started it just wouldn't register these names. A stop and start of the NetLogon service cured it for me.

Andy

 

[rwhall51]

Thank you for the responses. I'm not sure that the Netlogon is the issue. Starting and stopping services has not brought back the licenses that vanish. I can afford to wipe a reload either.