Importance of Server Licenses in Windows 2003 Server

After the installation has been done various things might have been missed which cannot be reverted later. One of them is the Licenses to the users managing windows 2003 server. We hardly would make sure that we have selected the right option but later after this arises as a problem we would have to consult server support.

The licensing can be selected for two modes.

1 Per Server Number of concurrent sessions.
2 Per device or per user.

If the licenses have been issued to number of users per server which would mean that at a time those many concurrent sessions would be established to a server. E.g. if you have selected 10 users that means the users who are members of the terminal services group can establish only 10 sessions at a time. Now when it comes to the user licenses it means only no of users have been given right to manage the servers.

If you have already selected the no of licenses per server which means at a single point of time that many concurrent sessions would be established to your server. So in this your partner system administrator responsible for server management or DNS support engineer manage your server you would not need any specific license for him.

The licenses can also be purchased from different vendors like VeriSign. You can also give a go through to the partners to purchase licenses for managing servers. Even if their server support engineer would initiate a server managing session to your server they can purchase the required licenses. So next time you start the installation make sure take care of all things should be taken into consideration.

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