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Hi,<br />
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what kind of cals are you holding currently. Users-Cal or device-cals?
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Hi,

what kind of cals are you holding currently. Users-Cal or device-cals?

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All great advice I will award the points out evenly as both pwindell &amp;&nbsp;kprad answered my question, I don't like the ideal of flattening and restarting from scratch but that's what I feared. Thank you for your answers. 
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All great advice I will award the points out evenly as both pwindell & kprad answered my question, I don't like the ideal of flattening and restarting from scratch but that's what I feared. Thank you for your answers.

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Once TS is a VM it will be good. You can even move it from one physical machine to another if reasons come up that you have to do that.
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Once TS is a VM it will be good. You can even move it from one physical machine to another if reasons come up that you have to do that.

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We have a client who as of right now are running &nbsp;TS 2008 &nbsp;successfully, this also acts as their File Server. They have a program which is going to require them to have a DC. My question is how would I go about joining the TS 2008 to a 2008 DC environment?<br />
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By the way I did some research and I believe from what I read that I would have to call MS Clearing House and deactivate and reactivate the Licenses (CALs) and place those CALs on the DC. Is this correct?
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We have a client who as of right now are running  TS 2008  successfully, this also acts as their File Server. They have a program which is going to require them to have a DC. My question is how would I go about joining the TS 2008 to a 2008 DC environment?

By the way I did some research and I believe from what I read that I would have to call MS Clearing House and deactivate and reactivate the Licenses (CALs) and place those CALs on the DC. Is this correct?

TS 2008 Joining a 2008 AD DC environment

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

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Active Directory

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