Confused over Terminal Services Licensing 2

[darren97]

Sorry to post such a lame Q, but I am very weak in this area and need some help.
I am confused over windows 2003 terminal services licensing. We have a slow link remote site and are building a 2003 terminal server to allow the clients to connect over RDP (Citrix was a coice, but deemed too expensive)The client computers are all XP Pro, so am I right in assuming that they don't need TS CALS? What server CALS do I need (this will be on a per user basis). If i have 10 XP Pro machines connecting over RDP, do I need to buy 10 Windows 2003 TS server licenses.
Thanks in advance

 

[brentoski]

The licensing for TS changed just after the release of TS2K3. Before all you would need is a current workstation license to access the terminal. So you could connect to a TS2K with a Windows 2000 Pro license.

If you purchased the XP Pro licenses and the TS2K3 server license back before they made this change they allowed these to be valid licensed connections.

But if this is a newer purchase of TS2K3 you will have to get TS licenses for each user or each computer you want connected.

Brent O.

 

[darren97]

Thanks for the reply, and sorry to be a dummie, but could you clarify something for me.
I know that I need the Server CALS for any connection to the TS, but are you saying that even though I'm running XP Pro on all the workstations I will have to buy separate client TS CALS??

 

[DCBennett]

Hi,

Yes, you need to buy TS Cals for all client PC's including XP Professional.
The only exception to this is if you can provide MS Licensing with proof of purchase of XP Professional before the release of 2003. This is before April 24th 2003.

Regards
David

 

[darren97]

Thanks David