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Thank you in advance for your help.
Read more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Licensing]]>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:24:45 GMT102927Citrix Presentation Server / XenApphttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/102285
Trying this again.

I have recently completed my migration from MF XP on W2K to PS 4.5 on W2K3. Completely decommisioned old farm and servers(6) and 2K TS License server.
I use WYSE S10's and 1125's to connect to my farm published desktop and apps.

I have plenty of TS cals for my user base but have currently run out of TS licenses. When I look at my TS License I noticed that I have a bunch of licenses issued (about 60) to my old 2K TS/Citrix boxes. I had 6 servers in my old farm, so each one is issued multiple licenses.
These license have expiration dates starting end of this month and running through Oct. I know they will return to the available pool when they expire, but the bulk of them are a couple of weeks away.

I would like to try to reclaim these now. MS clearing house wont reissue me licenses, told me to reinstall TS licensing.

If I deactivate, uninstall, reinstall and reactivate what affect will that have on my currently issued TS lic to my WYSE units? Will those still be good until they expire and then they will just be reissued a new one from the new install? Or will they throw errors at me right away?
I have a couple of S10's that will not connect and aren't issued a temp lic.

Any help suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Bruce



Read more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Citrix Presentation Server / XenApp]]>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:39:46 GMT102285Licensinghttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/102242
Bizarre one this. We have got some alerts in our Licence Managemnt Console reporting that we need to apply our Subscription Advantage Licences as they have expired. I have downloaded all of the required licence files but when I apply them our licence count goes down!

The licence count has gone down from 858 to 710! What has caused this to happen? Am I applying duplicate licences that is causing this to occur? How do I know which ones have already been applied?

In the MyCitrix pages, should the Subscription Advantage Licences all have the same licence code??

Hope someone can help as we need to get this sorted out.

Luckly the licence server is a virtual server so I was easily able to roll back to a state prior to the licence additions.

I have taken a copy of the virtual machine and started it up off of the network.

Thanks,

GarethRead more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Licensing]]>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:37:25 GMT102242Terminal Serviceshttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/102227Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:39:09 GMT102227Licensinghttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/102202
long post so I apologize in advance

Setup:

5 - PS (xen) 4.5 servers 1 farm on W2K3 SP1 - not virtualized
TS License Server W2K3 SP1 DC - Licensing mode - Per Device (24x7 shop) in Domain mode
All PS servers point to TS License server

Noticed I have old Metaframe XP W2K servers (6 servers total, using 60 licenses) on my 2K3 TS license server.
I have completely taken down my old farm, old servers are no longer on domain. Last server was removed 2 weeks ago.
These TS cals are marked to expire over the next 2 months, which if I understand the licensing correctly should be put back into my available pool when they expire, giving me 60 TS Cals back. If that happens great I have no problem then other then currently being out of licenses and not being able to add anyone new.
I called MS Clearing house to see if they would issue me a 60 TS Cal liscense key, but they said no. I would need to completely deactivate and uninstall the TS licensing and reinstall and then reactivate to clear out those licenses. I get that and if that is what I have to do ok.

My question is if I do that what does that do to my existing clients that already have a valid license issued?
All my internal clients connect to published desktop via WYSE 1125 or S10's.
I do have WI (v 3.0, CSG 2.0) setup and have people hitting the published apps from home or where ever also.

Is this something I should do during a maintenance window? Will the WYSE units balk on connection after TS License resetup because they already have TS license issued? No way to remove TS cal like on a pc for these units.

Is there a different way to get rid of these old servers using up cals other than reinstalling TS licensing?

Thanks for any suggestions, responses,

Bruce
Read more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Licensing]]>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:45:19 GMT102202Licensinghttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/102156
When I try to open the License Management Console in Pres Serv 4.0 I get the following message:

You did not authenticate correctly. Please try again or contact your system administrator

I know that this message is due to not logging in with the user who installed licensing originally, but I can't find that user so I'm stuck.

My question is; I've got the license file so can I just reinstall licensing on that server, use the orginal license file and everything will work?

Thanks, BenRead more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Licensing]]>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:32:54 GMT102156Citrix Presentation Server / XenApphttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/102034
Works is currently in the process if upgrading their window 2000 domain to windows 2008 and have a Metaframe XPe farm. Does any know of any XPe authentication issues with 2008 Active Directory or any gotches that we should be watching out for.

any help would be gratly appreciated.

cheers
TerryRead more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Citrix Presentation Server / XenApp]]>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:00:55 GMT102034Citrix Presentation Server / XenApphttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/101991Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:52:07 GMT101991Licensinghttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/101637Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:51:21 GMT101637Licensinghttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/101490Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:04:39 GMT101490Licensinghttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/101448
Can anybody let me know about licensing?

I know for citrix we required MS Terminal Server CAL License.
I am new to Citrix. Sorry for asking such basic question, but I am bit confuse here.
I would like to know is citrix selling bundle licenses MS TS CAL + Citrix or we need to buy separate MS TS CAL?

AjitRead more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Licensing]]>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:05:32 GMT101448Terminal Serviceshttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/101387
I am quite new to all this Terminal Services Licensing and could do with a little help. Can someone explain the types of licenses? Im my Terminal Server Licensing snap in I have the following:

Product: Existing Windows 2000 Server - Terminal Services CAL Token (Per Device)
Type: Built-In
Total Unlimited

Product: Windows Server 2003 - Terminal Server Per Device CAL Token
Type: OPEN
Total: 20

Thanks for your help.

Dan HargroveRead more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Terminal Services]]>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:52:06 GMT101387Licensinghttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/101365
Recent Setup
15 Windows 2000 Advanced Servers/Domain Controllers all running Terminal Server at a colo datacenter.
Windows 2000 Active Directory.
1 License server with about 1200 licenses for the servers.
1 Terminal License Server with built in unlimited connections.

How They Are Used
We have 800+ AD user accounts in two groups. Employees and Customers.
We have about 10 employee AD accounts
We have about 800 customer AD accounts
ALL access (employee and customer) to the terminal server farm is managed by an AEP Networks NSP device (Netilla Tarantella Server)
We provide hosting services for a software package we develop. We assign AD accounts to our customers with access to their program and database.

Where We Are Now
We have recently migrated to AD 2003
We have recently added a 2003 Terminal Server/Domain Controller

What We Are Confused About
1. We are trying to figure out how to license things now. Calls to Microsoft generate more confusion and different answers each time we call.
We have been told we need an $8k TSECL for the new 2003 Server because we have NON-EMPLOYEES connectiong to our TS for services we are charging for.
We have also been told that we only need TSCALS because all of our users are AD accounts where as a TSECL is used for unknown/anon/non-ad account connections.

2. Reserving this space for more questions when I have more time.


Any help or clairty would certainly be appreciated!
Read more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Licensing]]>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:54:54 GMT101365Terminal Serviceshttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/100861My concern is what I am missing?
Do I make the switch on the each Term Lic Server and Each Citrix Server? Or just the Term Lic Servers?
Are there any issues I should be aware of?
What are the biggest issues after the switch?
I'm pretty new to this and could use the help.
Thanks,
NormRead more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Terminal Services]]>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:19:03 GMT100861Citrix Presentation Server / XenApphttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/100669 Set Metaframe Edition for Platinum after either applying a hotfix PSE400R03W2K3058 or Rollup Pack 4. I have tried applying and re-installing rollup packs consequently and I still do not see the option. I also tried to install the R05 just to try it and still do not see the option. Before I did all the steps mentioned above I moved the server over to it's own farm by running chfarm command and creating a new farm with MS Access database to make sure it's on it's own and not interacting with the original data store for testing purposes.

I also found a published script on Citrix site called SetCPSEdition.vbs that manually sets the Edition on a single server or the whole farm. I've done this to the server and it just enabled the Other option and put in PLT into the text line. Doesn't look right to me.

http://community.citrix.com/display/cdn/Programatically+Set+Presentation+Server+4.5+Edition


Did anybody come across this problem?

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Forum: Citrix Presentation Server / XenApp]]>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:54:40 GMT100669Licensinghttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/100619
Over here we have a Citrix farm, which is part of the domain, we use for all day work like mail, office applications, etc.
In this farm we have an active license server.
I?m now working on a standalone Citrix server, which will be part of a workgroup, to publish some information databases.
For security reasons this server is placed standalone.

My question is; is it possible to use the license server from the Citrixfarm to assign licenses to the standalone Citrixserver?
If it is possible?
?how?

Hope someone can help me.

Regards,
RaymondRead more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Licensing]]>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:47:03 GMT100619Advanced Access Control / Citrix Access Gatewayhttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/100339
We are running 2 CAG's in a failover configuration. I updated one of them from "4.5 build 28" to "4.5.7 build 21". Since the update the updated CAG doesn't get licenses anymore from the first CAG, which is setup to be licenseserver. Connectivity between the boxes is ok. Anyone knows whats happening here.

Maybe its solved by updating the licenseserver but i would like to be a little more sure, the license server is also the apliance that usualy used by our clients.. If not solved by updating, is there a dependable way to revert back to the current situation?

Thanks in advance for your input.
MarcoRead more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Advanced Access Control / Citrix Access Gateway]]>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:29:52 GMT100339Application Installation & Compatibilityhttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/100210
I have a small farm Win2k3 with PS 4.0 Standard. We have the desktop published, and in the desktop we have several applications. There is an application that when I try to open it in Citrix, I get a "Unable to license fileuploadservice object" error. However, if I RDP directly to the server, I am able to open the application without errors.

I thought that it was a problem with the having multiple users accessing the application from different sessions, but It works when we have a bunch of people RDPing.

As I only have the standard version, I can not install the application in Isolation Enviroment.

Any idea of what the problem is?

Thank you,Read more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Application Installation & Compatibility]]>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:45:02 GMT100210Licensinghttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/99768
My manager asked me to find out if it might make more sense to get Windows 2008 Terminal Server Licenses, since it appears that they may be able to support 2003 Terminal Servers according to this document.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/licensing-faq.aspx
Q. Can I downgrade a TS CAL for use on a Windows 2003 terminal server?

A.
Yes. You may downgrade Windows Server 2008 TS CALs. However, both TS User and Device CALs will act as device-based CALs when accessing a Windows 2003 terminal server, as TS User CALs are not supported.


However, we do want to go with Per User rather than Per Device. We have users who work from home as well as in the office, or in other locations. Is my understanding correct that in order to support our users we will need to purchase all the licenses as Windows 2003 Per User CALs and if/when we upgrade to Windows 2008 we'll need to repurchase all the licenses again?Read more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Licensing]]>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:28:06 GMT99768Certificationhttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/99625
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See for yourself: http://www.certguard.com/search.asp?Site=brianmadden.comRead more:Group: OtherForum: Certification]]>Sat, 24 May 2008 11:36:10 GMT99625