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Citrix Farm with no Terminal Services Licensing server.

Asked by: bguilliams100

I have a Citrix Presentation server 4 server farm with 4 2003 servers.  It's been up and running for about 4 years.  I have ~200 users accessing ~65 different published applications.  I am attempting to add another Citrix server to the mix to spread the load a little more.  I began installing PS4 and when prompted to enter the Terminal services Licensing server the one I enter does not work.  I start digging around and I cannot find a Terminal Services Licensing server on my domain anywhere.  In the past I think the TS license server needed to be a DC.  I looked at both of my local DC's and neither have a check mark next to Terminal Services Licensing in Add/Remove programs and neither are running the Terminal Services Licensing server.  I looked at the member server that is also acting as the Citrix license server (which was the one I thought was running TS licensing) but it was the same scenario.  I've checked all of the PS4 servers to see if possibly they were acting as the license server with no luck.  There have been no changes to the Citrix farm with regards to new servers or any modification of the configuration since it was installed.  In other words, no one uninstalled TS licensing which left me in a grace period or anything to that affect.  

My question: Is there any way to find who is servicing the TS licenses.  Obviously some TS license server somewhere on my domain is issuing these licenses.  From what I understand by default this info is stored in AD.  Is there anyway to extract it from AD?

Thanks for you help

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2009-11-05 at 12:07:24ID24875857
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Answers

 

by: BLipmanPosted on 2009-11-06 at 07:04:04ID: 25759663

With Server 2003 and on you do not need to install TS Licensing on a DC, it was a requirement in 2000.  Your license server could be anywhere, start by looking at all of your servers and seeing if the Terminal Services Licensing Service is running (or you can just point your TS Licensing tool to every server one at a time until it connects to one).  You won't always see this automatically discovered in the domain but it is set in AD if you install it properly.  

 

by: bguilliams100Posted on 2009-11-06 at 08:34:16ID: 25760599

Thanks for the response.  I had heard mention that the TS licensing server no longer needed to be on a DC which is why I assumed I had installed the TS licensing piece on the same member server I had my Citrix licenses.  Since it wasn't there I started looking at my DC's.  I've looked at every server in the environment and none of them are running the TS license service and it is also not checked in Add/Remove programs as being installed.  I'm really scratching my head as to why it's not there and why my Citrix farm has not started screaming at me.  I even turned on a few older servers I had retired a few months ago to see if they had the licensing server on them but no luck.      

 

by: BLipmanPosted on 2009-11-06 at 09:00:08ID: 25760882

yeah, you should be getting errors and be placed in a grace period...

 

by: ee_autoPosted on 2009-12-03 at 01:21:00ID: 25960398

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