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Frane Borozan
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UNLIMITED TERMINAL SERVICES CONNECTIONS IN WINDOWS TERMINAL SERVICES 2000 AND 2003
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INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................ 2 UNLIMITED TERMINAL SERVICES CONNECTIONS IN WINDOWS 2000 ................. 3 UNLIMITED TERMINAL SERVICES CONNECTIONS IN WINDOWS 2003 ................. 5 GENERATING PERMANENT LICENSES 2000, 2003 & 2008 .................................. 7
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1. INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Terminal Services Unlimited. This document aims to help you get Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 terminal services unlimited connections at unlimited time. Please note that this is not crack for windows or anythig like that. Nevertheless, to completely prepare your server, I recommend that you begin by taking the step by step as it is covered in this document. I also recommend that you install, configure terminal services and terminal services licensing for running. I have tested this solution with clients Windows 2000 Pro, Windows XP, Windows 2000 Server, various Windows 2003 servers and PocketPC and also I have feedback that this is also working on thin clients.
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Note that this day hack works only when date is changed on server. It means that client will get "long" expiration date only if date on server is changed. I recommend that you change date on server and leave it for few days, or how long is needed for all clients to connect to server. When all clients connect in few days return date on server to today and all clients will have date that will expire in 10 or 15 years or whatever year you choose.
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18. CLIENT - Note that windows recreated new key in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MSLicensing\". This new key holds new expiration date on year what you choose to licence expire. 19. SERVER - Go to the Terminal server licensing in Administrative Tools 20. SERVER - Note that temporary licence now expires on year 2014. Issue date is also at year 2014 but information is not importat for clients to function. Server just saves expiration date on client. 21. SERVER - Return date on server to today date 22. You have Terminal Licence that expires at date that is long in future :) Note that this day hack works only when date is changed on server. It means that client will get "long" expiration date only if date on server is changed. I recommend that you change date on server and leave it for few days, or how long is needed for all clients to connect to server. When all clients connect in few days return date on server to today and all clients will have date that will expire in 10 or 15 years or whatever year you choose.
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That should be it you should have fully activated terminal server and terminal CAL. For Windows 2008 steps are the same as for Windows 2003 just in the step 14 do not choose windows 2003 per device CALs, choose windows 2008 per device CALs IF you have any problems with this HOWTO or any other questions please free to contact me at frane@admin-pains.com and I will gladly try to help you.
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