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Windows 2003 Active Directory Server Licensing
We have two Active Directory Domain Controllers with server licenses. These are VLA servers. We ordered and received
400 additional user cals and I have been trying without result to license these servers. I converted them to per user licenses and went to the license manager screen and added them to the purchase screen on one server - thinking erroneously apparently that if I license the active directory that both servers shared the licensing.
(I guess I have been working on Novell too long) Since users of server b weren't getting licensing.......I tried removing half the licensing to server B but nothing doing.
When I try to add licenses to server b purchase history nothing show up there - it shows up in the server a purchase history - the license all seem to go to server a
and server b is not licensing any of its users.
What exactly am I doing wrong...The instructions are straight forward but server b still has an alert and says is user are unlicensed.
400 additional user cals and I have been trying without result to license these servers. I converted them to per user licenses and went to the license manager screen and added them to the purchase screen on one server - thinking erroneously apparently that if I license the active directory that both servers shared the licensing.
(I guess I have been working on Novell too long) Since users of server b weren't getting licensing.......I tried removing half the licensing to server B but nothing doing.
When I try to add licenses to server b purchase history nothing show up there - it shows up in the server a purchase history - the license all seem to go to server a
and server b is not licensing any of its users.
What exactly am I doing wrong...The instructions are straight forward but server b still has an alert and says is user are unlicensed.
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so all the logins to the second server being labeled as "unlicensed" and an alert on the licensing module is not a problem?? The solution is just to turn off the logging? Really? - doesn't sound right.
The servers are both set to per user licensing.
The servers are both set to per user licensing.
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On the other hand, as long as you have the appropriate number of CALs, you can as well turn of the license logging:
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[...] By default, LLS is disabled in Windows Server 2003. [...]
Microsoft has confirmed that the following products and versions function correctly when LLS is disabled:
* Windows NT Server 4.0 family, Windows 2000 Server family, and Windows Server 2003 family
[...]
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Description of the License Logging Service in Windows Server Operating Systems
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=824196