Just a thought...but what about installing licensing services on a PDC and a BDC, and then splitting the licenses...ie, if you have 500 licenses split it 250 on the PDC, and 250 on the BDC. The only question becomes which one responds to a license request, however... -Dave Melczer -----Original Message----- From: Claus, Brian [mailto:BClaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 1:06 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Restore TS Licensing Server Great question Dave...I don't know the answer though but I'd be happy to hear it... (hint) Since my first post, we've reloaded the DC and reinstalled fresh MS TS and called MS and reactivated our CALs on the new server. They say that Win9x clients that have a current CAL from the old server will automatically get a new CAL from this server when their old expires. My main concern was having to hack the registry of a lot of Win9x PC's to delete their license key so they could register with the new licensing server but they said that it would all be automatic...we'll see. As of now, things seem to be OK by simply installing the fresh OS and reinstalling MS TS and activating our licenses. I already see about 10-15 clients that have registered with it. _____ Brian Claus, A+, Network+, MCP Network Administrator WESCO Distribution, Inc. 225 West Station Square Drive, Suite 700 Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1122 Phone: 412-454-2412 Fax: 412-454-2540 bclaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bclaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> _____ -----Original Message----- From: DMelczer@xxxxxxxx [mailto:DMelczer@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 10:26 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Restore TS Licensing Server Just a quick side question here... Is there any way to offer licensing redundancy for just such an occurrence? ie, is it possible to have the license server running with the same licenses on more than one machine, and just start the service on the secondary machine if the primary goes offline for some reason? -Dave Melczer -----Original Message----- From: Evan Mann [mailto:emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 10:22 AM To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [THIN] Re: Restore TS Licensing Server I'd WANT to call MS and get re-issues. It's like getting new licenses all over again. If you've had some Windows boxes out there that didn't have internal keys, that are no longer part of your environment, or they got completely reloaded, then you have lost those keys. If you get re-issues, you regain then. I moved from NT domain to AD and we obviously had to call for re-issues. Went from 140 of our TS CALs being used to now only using 19 of them. 99% of our 98 machines had be replaced with XP Pro or 2000 Pro so we are now uses the provided CALs. It's nice to regain those licenses. -----Original Message----- From: Pavlo Ignatusha [mailto:pignatusha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 10:02 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Restore TS Licensing Server I would suggest clean install and calling MS. I think you can only pull TS licensing back from tape if you restore the whole server. If you want to reistall OS and pull back just licensing server I doubt it is going to work. When you activate TS Licensing server it generates a unique string of characters. I think it will be different from your original one when you reinstall OS. But wait for others to reply. Somebody may have actually tried this. Just my 0.02 cents Pavlo Ignatusha Systems and Network Coordinator Pembroke General Hospital Tel. (613) 732-3675 ext.6150 Fax. (613) 732-9986 www.pemgenhos.org "All that matters is love and work" - Sigmund Freud. -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Claus, Brian Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:54 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Restore TS Licensing Server Lost a DC yesterday that happened to be our TS licensing server. Anyone know what the best path to restore is? Should I just clean reinstall and call MS to reactivate new licenses or try to pull from tape? 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