Remote Desktop Services License question

So you are saying that you haven't tested this, but it should work?
Why would they not sell RDS as OEM anymore?

Yes you can. If you don't upgrade your sever frequently you need to buy the OEM licence (cost effictive).

I know we had a question about this. The answer we got was that we could install RDS on it. With the CAL's required for it. But if the server (hardware) was not good enough to run the RDS then we had to buy a new server, because with OEM you're kinda hardware-bounded.

To make everything short, don't worry about it, you may/can do it.

I did not understand what you are trying to say about hardware.

I've been in IT for 18 years... I've bought dozens if not hundreds of licenses, sold dozens of licenses, attended numerous seminars by vendors such as Microsoft and Ingram Micro on licensing, and been involved with projects for Microsoft involving licensing.  I know what I know and what I don't know.  You're welcome to judge as needed, but like I said, the ONLY place you can get a DEFINITIVE ANSWER, is Microsoft.  I don't know why you wouldn't call them.

What I can tell you is that CALs, when sold with the machine, are OEM.  OEM licenses are legally locked to the hardware they are first installed on - once installed, they can only be sold with the hardware they are installed on.  Volume Licenses are legally tied to the entity (company) who buys them - they can be transferred to ANY system with the same company but can never be resold.  Retail licenses are not tied to the machine OR the purchasing entity - they CAN be resold when uninstalled/retired from the machine they are installed on (but realistically, who trusts resold retail software?  I wouldn't).  

RDS CALs have historically been registered to a licensing server.  That licensing server governs who can use them (Device or User).  Understand something critically important that most people don't get - Microsoft DOES NOT license by concurrent user.  If your client has 10 people and only wants 5 to connect at any given time but wants them to be able to connect from ANYWHERE, then the client needs 10 CALs, not 5.  You license by HUMAN user (not user name in active directory or a local account database) OR you license by DEVICE that can connect - a specific computer, for example.  

But AGAIN, at the END OF THE DAY, YOU MUST CALL MICROSOFT FOR A DEFINITIVE ANSWER.

If you want to be 100% legally fine, then you need to contact MS for an answer on paper. Even when I'm sure about the licensing, I'll contact MS for an answer on paper, so I 100% covered legally.

I think that Leew does this also. This is something that we all do. With the information you provided I say yes, leew too in his first post. BUT we don't know everything about how you bought it with MS. So contact a MS spokesman for 100% closure.