[THIN] Re: Tracking 2003 CAL's

Thanks again Carl.

To be clear, ensuring that I own enough TSCAL's for every named user is for 
satisfying compliance requirements and not technical requirements.  This is 
where the ability to track utilization would be helpful since it'd provide real 
data to decision makers as well as ensure that we originally sized our TSCAL's 
accurately.


From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Carl Stalhood
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 1:09 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Tracking 2003 CAL's

User CALs are not enforced.

Device CALs are enforced.

Make sure all of your Terminal Servers are configured with Per User TS 
Licensing and there won't be a problem (run tscc.msc). However, you still have 
to ensure that you own a TSCAL for every named user that connects to Terminal 
Server.


On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Gary Scanga 
<Gary.Scanga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Gary.Scanga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

Thanks Carl. Yes, I was asking about Per-user CAL utilization. Bummer there's 
no simple way to track these in 2003.



I'm continuing to look into managing the utilization of these CAL's because I 
suspect that we're running near capacity and want to know when the limit's been 
reached. However, based on this 
definition<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_Access_License#CAL_Enforcement> 
it appears that my 2003 terminal server farm may allow additional connections 
beyond the number of CAL's installed. So, if I have 500 CAL's configured on my 
2003 terminal server license server, connection number 501 would technically be 
allowed. And perhaps that's a reason why tracking their utilization isn't so 
important as it won't negatively impact the business.



Can else anyone confirm this?



I simply want to avoid the opposite being true and connection number 500 is 
rejected due to a CAL limitation.



Thanks!



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Of Carl Stalhood
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:27 AM
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Subject: [THIN] Re: Tracking 2003 CAL's



You mean User CALs? User CALs are tracked in 2008 but not in 2003.


On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Gary Scanga 
<Gary.Scanga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Gary.Scanga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

Does anyone have a decent way of tracking the issuance or utilization of TS 
CAL's in 2003?

Thanks in advance!

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