Hi guys,<o:p></o:p>
We have the following situation in our IT environment. We set up multiple terminal servers, which are used by 50-60 end user of our company. They use them regularly. Every terminal server is a RD license server at the same time.
We also have 50-60 3-party-accounts from other companies, who are using one specific terminal server to get access to our IT environment. This guys are maintaining/repairing our systems, installing software updates, and so on. They are doing it irregular. That means, that there are some 3-party-users, who use this terminal server once a week, and some of them who use it once in 6 months. This terminal server is also a RD license server. <o:p></o:p>
Now we are looking forward to reduce the number of our RD license servers to one or two. The question is, whether we have to separate the RD license server into a RD license server for internal users (who are performing business processes) and RD license server for external users (who are maintaining and repairing our systems). The number of internal users is constantly growing and we are afraid, that at some point of time in the future all free RDS user CAL will be reserved by our internal users and in the case of a critical system failure one of our external users won't be able to access our environment and fix the problem (because there won't be any free RDS CAL).<o:p></o:p>
Does it make sense to set up two RD license server in our case or what would you advise? I would prefer only one RD license server if we could assign some fix number of RDS CAL to the terminal server our external users use (but I think it's not possible) or if we could be sure, that even in case we don't have sufficient number of RDS CAL for some reason our external users will be able to connect to our terminal server in a critical situation.<o:p></o:p>
Of course we have to take care that we buy new RDS user CAL every time we grow, but what if we forget to do it for some reason (for example in case that the responsible person is sick or leaved the company)?
Thanks in advance and best regards
Valdez