[THIN] Re: Terminal Services CALS

  • From: "Stansel, Paul" <Paul.Stansel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:15:56 -0400

Again, I disagree.  I'd really recommend you contact MS licensing to get
their answer.  As I said before, I was allowed to get TS CALs for every
Win2K Pro CAL I had that was not in use.

-Paul

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> From:         Jensen, Jay[SMTP:jjensen@xxxxxxxxx]
> Reply To:     thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent:         Friday, October 04, 2002 11:11 AM
> To:   'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject:      [THIN] Re: Terminal Services CALS
> 
> 
> That is correct.  The Terminal Server does not know you purchased those
> licenses, it only understands you are connecting with a Win95 machine and
> that will require you to purchase a Win2K license and a TS CAL license
> when
> connecting to a Win2K Terminal Server.  This doubling your cost structure
> for Microsoft licensing but that is the way it is.  If you stayed Win2k on
> your workstations, this would not be an issue.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee, David (CITY TREASURY) [mailto:David.Lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:05 AM
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Terminal Services CALS
> 
> 
> 
> Ouch!  So although we have effectively purchased a TS CAL for each PC as
> part of the Win2k Pro license, because we have exercised the downgrade
> right
> to install Windows 95, we can't use it?  
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blackman, John [mailto:John.Blackman@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 04 October 2002 15:44
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Terminal Services CALS
> 
> 
> 
> Yeah I agree, the way I understood it you have to be explicitly running
> W2K
> Pro in order to use the "built in" TS CAL license.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jensen, Jay [mailto:jjensen@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 04 October 2002 15:38
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Terminal Services CALS
> 
> 
> You don't.  If you are connecting with a Windows 95 workstation to a Win2K
> Server running Citrix / Terminal servers you will need a TS CAL and Win2k
> license for each connection.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee, David (CITY TREASURY) [mailto:David.Lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 9:20 AM
> To: Thin client listserve (E-mail)
> Subject: [THIN] Terminal Services CALS
> 
> 
> 
> Apologies for another licensing question!  We are about to start an
> expansion of our XPe server farm, and I'm having some fun sorting out MS
> Terminal Services CALS for the client machines...... 
> 
> We have about 200 fairly recent spec Dell PCs, which were supplied with
> Windows 2000 Professional licences, but for various reasons, currently
> have
> to run a downgrade installation of Windows 95 (yeuk!).  Now, the Win2K
> licence for each PC includes a TS CAL, but as the PCs run Win95, how do I
> convince the licensing server that all is legit?  
> 
> Cheers
> 
> David Lee
> 
> 
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