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Terminal Server Licensing (per device) in a dual boot environment: 1 or 2 licenses per PC?

in our company I have a few computers that are already Windows 7 clients to a Windows Server 2008 R2 but are now supposed to receive an additional Linux installation as a dual-boot option. The licensing mode on the terminal server is set to "per…
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How do I actually use RDS CALs?

I'm new to CALs, first time actually trying to use them, and I'm having some difficulties. I purchased 3 licences from CDW and installed them through the RD Licensing manager, where they show up as: License version and type: Windows Server 2012 -…
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Windows 2003 SBS: no more CAL sold

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing issue? I just discovered a hidden unmanaged server into a remote location. This is a Windows 2003 SBS with 5 CAL per device. There is currently 12 computers connected. So I want to…
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Windows Server CAL and VPN

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We have a a client that wants to provide VPN access to one server running windows 2008 r2, using Routing and Remote Access Server. He wants to give his customers the ability…
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General questions regarding CALs and WS 2003

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I have a few questions regarding CALs and Windows Server 2003: 1 - what happens if you join more computers to the domain than available CALs, do some computers get…
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Recover SBS 2003 CALs

My SBS 2003 CALs have reset back to five after some weird server issues. I don't have a backup of the CAL licenses anywhere is there somewhere I can restore these from?
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SQL Server with more users connecting than user CALs purchased

SQL server standard 2014 and 2016: if 10 user CALs are installed for user based licensing (not core based), and 10 of the existing users on the domain connect to the SQL server all works fine. If my client decides to add a few users to access the…
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Server 2016 standard RDS CAL

I wonder if any of you know if there are separate OEM and OLP RDS CALs for server 2016? Our distributor said that we will be able to use the OLP CALs on an OEM version of 2016 standard. Is this correct? We got the following product codes quoted, but…
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Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server CALs and Remote Desktop

Recently we have have installed Windows Server 2008 R2 on one of our development boxes at work. We have 10 Client Access Licence's for Microsoft Windows Terminal Server 2008. I'm under the impression that these licences will entitle us to have 10…
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Do I need Windows License beside CAL for Active Directory

I could not find an answer to this question. I am panning to deploy windows server and I am confused with the licensing. Do I need Windows License key for every machine that will be using CAL from the domain controller ? How many licenses I really…
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Windows Server 2008 CALs for Windows Server 2008 R2

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? Our existing setup has 3 servers running on Windows Server 2008 and there are 75 users in the office. We have a total of 80 Windows Server 2008 user CALs for this. We will…
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How many CALs are installed on my server?

How can I find out what sort of Client Access Licenses and how many of them are installed on this Server 2008 system I have been asked to administer?
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Cannot install CAL License in Windows Server 2016

I am trying to install a RDS CAL license into a server and I am getting an error saying the license is already in use. I already tried 2 different licenses, both of them should be clean and without any uses, so I am guessing I am failing something…
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Can I access a Windows 2016 server from a 2012 client through a 2012 server?

We have a bunch of thin clients with Server 2012 CALs. These thin clients mostly run RDP to a Windows 2012 server We want to put a SQL Server 2016 install on a Windows 2016 server. These are all separately licensed. Programs running on the 2012…
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Installing Server 2012 User CAL's from MPSA agreement

we have today received confirmation on our new MPSA agreement that our Server 2012 R2 Server and User CAL's have been added. I have installed the RD Licensing Manager on the 2012 R2 Standard server and activated it. When I go to add the CAL's, I do…
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