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Workgroup or Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Domain
If a server that has Terminal Server enabled is a member of
workgroup or a Windows NT 4.0 domain, there are two methods that you can use to
discover a Terminal Services Licensing server. After a Terminal Services
Licensing server is located, the discovery process stops.
Method 1: LicenseServers Registry Key Query
A server that has Terminal Server enabled first queries any
servers that are listed in the
LicenseServers registry key that is described in the following Microsoft
Knowledge Base article:
279561 How to
Override the License Server Discovery Process in Windows Server 2003 Terminal
Services
Method 2: Mailslot Broadcast
A server that has Terminal Server enabled issues a mailslot
broadcast. All Terminal Services Licensing servers that receive the broadcast
respond. The server that has Terminal Server enabled then selects one of the
Terminal Services Licensing servers at random.
Microsoft Windows Server Domain
If the server that has Terminal Server enabled is member of a
Windows Server-based domain, there are three methods that you can use to
discover a Terminal Services Licensing server. After a Terminal Services
Licensing server is located, the discovery process stops.
Method 1: LicenseServers Registry Key Query
A server that has Terminal Server enabled first queries any
servers that are listed in the
LicenseServers registry. This registry key is described in the following
Microsoft Knowledge Base article:
279561 How to
Override the License Server Discovery Process in Windows Server 2003 Terminal
Services
: You can now run the Terminal Services Licensing service on
member servers and on domain controllers. If the service runs on a member
server, you must implement the
LicenseServers registry key because the discovery process cannot locate it.
Method 2: Enterprise License Server Query
A server that has Terminal Server enabled queries the Active
Directory directory service site for the following object, where
site-name is the name of the site in which the
server that has Terminal Server enabled resides, and
domainname is the domain name that the server that
has Terminal Server enabled is a member of:
LDAP://CN=TS-Enterprise-License-Server,CN=site-name,CN=sites,CN=configuration,DC=domainname,DC=com
Method 3: Domain License Server Query
A server that has Terminal Server enabled queries
all domain controllers in the site. If no Terminal Services Licensing servers
are found
in the same site, the
search ends.
Use Method 1 to specify the license server.
References
For additional information about discovery in Windows 2000, click the following
article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
232520
Description of Terminal Services License Server discovery
For additional information about overriding the license server discovery process in Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
279561
How to override the license server discovery process in Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services