Terminal Services Licensing

[ap1612]

Quick question about Terminal Services Licensing.
I have setup the terminal services licensing server and now i need to work out how many CAL's i need.
I am only going to have a 40 user citrix license, however there could be more then 40 PC's (NT4.0) with the ability to connect to the citrix environment.
Do i need a terminal services CAL for each workstation (non 2000 pro) that will ever connect or is it concurrent connections?

Reason I'm wondering is that in testing I connected a machine and it recieved a Temp license and even a day after the machine was switched, teminal services licensing was still showing the temporary license.

Arun

 

[xs4citrix]

The temp licensing mechanism stops working after 90 days.
If you do not run win2k, or XP pro clients, then you will need a TS cal for every NAMED computer.
Only citrix licensing works concurrent.

Some good licensing resources are:

http://www.citrix4ge.de/ctxsffaq/msLicensing.htm

http://www.workthin.com/tsls2k.htm

http://www.workthin.com/tsls2k3.htm

Stefan

http://www.printingsupport.com

 

[lacitrixuser]

If this is a new server a strong argument could be made to build your Citrix servers with Windows 2003 Terminal Services.

With 2003 TS Licensing you can license each user that connects rather than each workstation. It's still not as convenient as Citrix's concurrent licensing, but if you have users that may connect to your Citrix farm from multiple devices this will save you having to license each of those machines. You will just need one license for that user.

This mainly makes sense if you have users that may connect to the farm with a laptop and a desktop. Or who may connect remotely from their home computers.

If you simply know how many computers are in your company and exactly how many of those will be used to connect to the Citrix farm then you can simply use the traditional Windows 2000 device TS CALS.