licence help

[Uraken]

hi there we have a a server which we have citrix presentation server on which i have 25 licences on for my staff to use at home. but as the server is sat doing nothing all day i reuse it as a terminal server which was working so well i got carried away and now hava most of my old crappy machines converted to thin clients. The problem that i have is that because i only have 25 citrix licences i can't connect any more than 25 users via rdp ?? which seems a little weird that citrix can control this? is there away around it? i'm aware i will need another server soon enough but have to have a tempoary solution in place by monday.

i have considered stopping the citrix services (or uninstalling for now).

[djm968]

This depends on how many TS Cals do you have. If you have more than 25 TS Cals, you could uninstall Citrix and just use WTS with RDP instead.

[Uraken]

thats going to be my last resort but i wanted to use my citrix licences(given that i have paid for them).

[Geoff]

How many TS CALs do you have?

[Uraken]

@geoff 40 or so

heres another idea i had create virtual server form existing terminal server change sid etc and run on high spec machine that way i have the same config etc and can just point some of my clients toward the new server, then buy new server and just whack the virtual machine on it?

[djm968]

Unfortunately AFAIK there is no way round this, the Citrix licensing model will refuse to allow additional client connections even over RDP.

[Uraken]

sorry forgot to add tscals are notional arn't they so if i need any more i can order them and that would cover me until they arrive, ie they don't get installed at terminal server (do they?)

[Geoff]

You must install TS CALs on your Domains TS Licensing Server. You cannot use more licenses than are installed on said server.