Consider the following scenario. You have multiple Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services license servers in your enterprise environment. You use a License Server Security Group Policy setting to control license allocation. Additionally, you have more than one License Server security group in your enterprise environment. In this scenario, some terminal servers cannot acquire a license from the
license server.
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The Terminal Services License Server discovery process first enumerates all available license servers. Then, the discovery process selects a license server that is identified as a working license server. The request fails if it does not come from a server that is a member of the License Server security group.
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For more information about Microsoft Windows Server 2003 terminal server licensing, visit the following Microsoft Download Center Web site:
For more information about how to override the license server discovery process, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
279561 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279561/)
How to override the license server discovery process in Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services
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