Event 1010 is reported after specifying default license server (281258)

SYMPTOMS

After you specify a default Terminal Services license server, the following event is logged every six hours on a server that is running Terminal Services:

Event ID: 1010
Source: TermService
Type: Warning
Description: The terminal services could not locate a license server. Confirm that all license servers on the network are registered in WINS\DNS, accepting network requests, and the Terminal Services Licensing Service is running.

CAUSE

This event is logged every six hours if the normal Terminal Services Licensing discovery process does not succeed. However, this event does not mean that unlicensed clients are unable to connect because the server that is running Terminal Services cannot locate a license server. Even if you set a default Terminal Services license server, the event continues to be logged.

If you are able to verify by testing with a new client that Terminal Services licenses are being issued by this Terminal server, you can safely ignore the errors in the event log of the server because they simply indicate that the Terminal Services license server autodiscovery process failed to locate a license server. Microsoft recommends that you use the DefaultLicenseServer registry value to reduce any issues with the Terminal Server Licensing discovery process.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

This issue does not occur in Microsoft Windows Server 2003.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

239107 Establishing preferred Windows 2000 Terminal Services License Server

232520 Description of Terminal Services License Server discovery

279561 How to override the license server discovery process in Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services