Terminal Service Licensing Question.

[dfgu]

Hi,
I have windows 2000 SP4 installed with terminal services.
My question is, when I goto Admin tools --> Terminal Service licensing, I see the CAL tokens that are given out. They dont tell who was the user it was given out to, but the Name of the User's computer.
My question is, Can I find out who was using that computer to log in? Can I control who gets a CAL token and who doesn't?
DO I have to wait till the CAL token expires before being able to issue another one out? or Can I manually take a token away?

Thanks for any information avaiable.

 

[mattjurado]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/howtobuy/pricing/tsfaq.asp

Matt J.

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[mlichstein]

They don't show the username because they are per-device licenses. Once a machine gets a TS CAL, any user that logs on to that machine can access a terminal server using that CAL.

You can delete the CAL from the client (there is a registry key), but that will not return it to the pool. The license MMC will still show the license as being issued, until it expires.

 

[dfgu]

I understand that the license is given to the client, but is there a way to find out who that client is? Because that client has to login to the system in order to give the license out.

Thanks..