[THIN] Re: RESOLVED: Event 1009 on 2003 Terminal Server
- From: "Landin, Mark" <Mark.Landin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:39:42 -0500
At the moment, yes. Until they fix it. However, you would be in
violation of your licensing agreements if you knowingly do not purchase
enough CAL's to cover your usage. (It's the honor system right now, in
other words).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of biju & Julia
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:13 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: RESOLVED: Event 1009 on 2003 Terminal Server
>
> hey Mark..
>
> that means, if i have only 30 user TS CAl, still i can
> connect my 500 users, without problems?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Landin, Mark" <Mark.Landin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 2:01 AM
> Subject: [THIN] RESOLVED: Event 1009 on 2003 Terminal Server
>
>
> > Earlier today I asked:
> >
> >> > I'm seeing this on a Windows 2003 Terminal Server. My license
> >> > server is an activated Windows 2003 DC. Odd thing: Note
> the date of
> >> > the event, and the date of expiration noted in the Event
> >> > Description.
> >> >
> >> > So is this a red herring, or a real problem? (I have
> done License
> >> > server discovery registry trick as per the MS KB article).
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Event Type: Warning
> >> > Event Source: TermService
> >> > Event Category: None
> >> > Event ID: 1009
> >> > Date: 10/25/2004
> >> > Time: 11:35:15 AM
> >> > User: N/A
> >> > Computer: TULCTX1
> >> > Description:
> >> > The terminal server licensing grace period is about to expire on
> >> > 10/22/2004 and the service has not registered with a
> license server
> >> > with installed licenses. A terminal server license server is
> >> > required for continuous operation. A terminal server can operate
> > without a
> >> > license server for 120 days after initial start up.
> >
> > After talking with MS (free call, btw, since it's a
> licensing issue. I
> > guess MS feels too guilty to charge $$ to fix problems with their
> > weird licensing scheme)
> >
> > This error is actually a false alarm. It occurs because of the way
> > that Windows 2003 handles (or doesn't handle, actually)
> per-user TS CAL's.
> > Although you can set up per-user TS 2003 CALs in a license server,
> > they are not actually handed out or tracked. This functionality was
> > rumored to be added in perhaps in Service Pack 1 for Windows 2003
> > server, but the MS guy I talked with today said definitely
> not in SP1,
> > and probably not for quite a while after that.
> >
> > In the meantime, the TS 2003 Terminal Server, which has been set to
> > use Per User licensing as well, is simply reporting that it cannot
> > find a license server with Per User CALS on it. This is
> both true and
> > false, since there really IS an activated 2003 license
> server with Per
> > User CALs on it, but those CALs are not actually managed/tracked by
> > the license server. In reality the Terminal Server should not be
> > issuing this error message. The MS guy acknowledged this is
> a bug in
> > Windows
> > 2003 Terminal Services but did not offer a timeframe for a
> hotfix or
> > general fix.
> >
> > He gave me a registry entry to prevent the message from
> appearing any
> > further:
> >
> > In HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TermService\Parameters,
> > create a DWORD value called LicensingGracePeriodEnded, and
> set the value to 0.
> > This will prevent the license expiration warning message from
> > appearing in the Event Log.
> >
> > Hope that helps someone in the future!
> >
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