We were running a Windows 2008 RDS server which had licenses just as old.
The licensing server crashed and we had to reinstall onto another server.
Before this, with 50 licenses, any random 50 devices could remote in.
There was no revoking necessary, and it never permanently assigned a license to someone's machine.
It would stop that 51st person from logging in simultaneously, but it didn't permanently assign a license to a machine where someone else couldn't log in for lack of licensing when less than the max were concurrently running.
Now, the first 50 people that have logged in are the only devices that can, and some of those devices are home machines, or personal mobile devices (like android and iPad tablets).
Did we install the licensing server incorrectly to make such a thing occur, or is this the way it is?
We need to be able to allow the number of users that we have licenses for to use remote access, and not simply the first 50 that got the 50 licenses.
Is there a way or type of license that allows this?
Is there a way to shorten the expiration time so that devices we can't control do not get licensing.
It is not possible to control what device a user uses to access remote services without adding other layers to the network that defeat our business requirements.
Any help would be appreciated.
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