This is normal, since you did not install the terminal
server licensing server as part of the installation.
Figure 9-6. Selecting the Per Device licensing mode
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TERMINAL SERVICES LICENSING
If you haven??™t already established a terminal server environment and followed the steps in
the preceding hands-on exercise, you will receive a warning that the server cannot locate
a licensing server and that you have 120 days to configure a licensing server. This was
designed to give administrators more than enough time to set up required license servers
for their server farms. You should never go to production with a server running this provisional
license.
Windows Server 2008 includes a service called Terminal Services Licensing that
is used to manage Terminal Services licenses throughout your environment. It isn??™t
installed by default, but must be selected as a role service. You don??™t need to install
TS Licensing on every terminal server in your environment. One TS Licensing server
can service multiple terminal servers. Without a TS Licensing server available, your
terminal servers will be able to issue only temporary tokens rather than permanent
ones to client devices. Terminal Services not only provides centralized license management,
but it allows for license auditing and reporting for both Per Device and Per User
licensing modes.
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