Windows server 2008 TS licensing

NightmareXX

NightmareXX

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I've just installed windows server 2008 on a virtual machine to have a play around with it and so far, everything is as complicated as I expect it to be for someone who's never looked at a server before. However, there's something I don't quite understand.

Terminal services. At the moment, for my fileserver, I'm using XP Pro which allows 1 remote desktop connection at a time. Any more and it just kicks the other user. As I understand it, I can have multiple logins on my 2008 server which, after much faffing around and changing group policy settings, managed to get working on a non-admin account.

At the moment, I'm running the server with the 120 day grace period for the CAL(s). I don't understand how it works though. After the 120 days, can I only have 1 user logged in at once? Or is it something that I don't even need to be looking at? Do you have to pay for the user licenses?

Any help would be appreciated.


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I posted this in the windows software section but I think I'll get a better response from here. Delete if necessary.
 
@burns: Yea it was a DC, removed the AD now so it's just a stand alone server as I decided that there wasn't any point me messing around with domains.

@DRZ: Pretty much nail on the head there. I've got access to the MSDNAA so I have 90% of the microsoft products available for free. Downloaded them all of course so I was giving a few a go.

All I'm wanting to do was to have the ability for more than 1 person to login to my server at once. I knew I could do this with windows server so that's where I went first but if I'm going to have to pay for it, I might as well just do the XP hack.
 
I've no idea how many CALs I get with it but I came up with a better idea. Running an XP VM on my existing XP host and that gets me exactly what I was wanting to achieve :)
 
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