Terminal Services Licensing service discovery
I will describe in this article terminal services licensing discovery methods in workgroup and domain.
In Work group there are two methods for discovering licensing:
License Servers Registry Key Query
go to the registry to key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TermService\Parameters and create there new key “LicenseServers”. Now enter that subkey and for each license server create new key named “ServerName” where value of this key is:
• The NetBIOS name of the server
• The fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the server
• The IP Address of the server
• The fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the server
• The IP Address of the server
The other method in workgroup is Mailslot Broadcast
This is for a server that has TS enabled issues a mailslot broadcast. TS enabled server then selectes one of the Terminal services licensing servers at random pick.
Discovering Licensing server in domain
First method is via registry keys, same as I described for workgroup.
Second method is via Enterprise License Server Query
TS enabled server queries Active directory for the object, where site-name is the site where TS server resides, and domain name is domain where that terminal server is a member of:
LDAP://CN=TS-Enterprise-License-Server,CN=site-name,CN=sites,CN=configuration,DC=domainname,DC=com