It’s recommended to force these settings via Group Policy using Domain GPO if the machine is member of AD Domain.
Server Manager > Remote Desktop Services > Overview > Deployment Overview > Tasks> Edit Properties Deployment > Licensing/License Manager pane (from the left area) > please confirm that your RD Licensing Server is added and the RDS Licence type (per user or device) is checked.
Please follow the steps below to correctly configure your RDS deployment with the new RDS CAL: You can see the 5 CALs installed and deployed.Īlthough when you remote in, you can see that you are using 1 of the 5 RDP licenses.īut when the 3rd person try to RDP in, it doesn’t allow him. The VM hosted in Azure is running Windows Server 2016. You increase the number of the simultaneous RDP connections to 5. Usually this machine is on a segregated network and not domain join.Īlthough, if you enable RDS licenses to have more than the 2 normal RDP sessions that a Windows Server 2016 give to us, you probably will see some similarity with the following scenario. The license manager contacts the Microsoft Clearinghouse to validate and retrieve your licenses.In some organization, it’s common practice to have a jump server in Azure to be used, specially when you have several tools that need to run “locally” on the server.
Select the product version, license type, and number of licenses for your environment, and then click Next.
In most cases, this will be the license code or an agreement number, but this varies depending on the license program you're using.
Enter the information for your license program.
If you are a service provider, select Service Provider License Agreement.
Select the program you purchased your RDS CALs from, and then click Next.
Right-click the license server, and then click Install licenses.
On the license server (usually the first RD Connection Broker), open the Remote Desktop Licensing Manager.
Note you need Internet connectivity on the computer running Remote Desktop Licensing Manager but not on the computer running the license server. Once the CALs are installed, the license server will issue them to users as appropriate. Use the following information to install Remote Desktop Services client access licenses (CALs) on the license server. Applies to: Windows Server (Semi-Annual Channel), Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016