Good day Everyone,
So, the agreement between my company and another was to use terminal services for their users to connect and use the published apps, which was fine to test out during the 60day trail period. Complications occurred when the white-listing of specific sites stopped working and we had to find ways around this, which meant that by the time things got sorted, the 60 day trail period you get when installing RDS role, expired.
The company doesn't want to purchase any CAL's for their 2/3 users (users is expecting to grow, hence terminal services) and requested that terminal services be removed for the time being. This is fine, because I can just uninstall the RDS role form server manager.
The problem is, even after uninstalling, RDS still appears in the quick access on the left in server manager. I am not an expert on RDS or terminal services, but i would expect it to be removed. But this isn't the real problem, the problem is, even after removing the role, windows still complains about there not being a license configured in the license manager, which means that users can't RDP to the computer. I've been searching the internet and cannot find a solution.
I already tried going to regedit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\RDP-Tcp and selecting decimal and setting it to 3389.
My understanding is that server is for some reason still sending incoming rdp requests to the session host? And that it's checking for a license on the license manager since the temp license expired.. Not sure what the process is that it's following.
I just want to reinstate that default RDP, so that users can atleast connect to the machine again.
I saw a fix where a user said you must go to the session host config and create a new RDP-Tcp listener, but i have no session host server added, and cannot add one.
Any help would be appreciated please.
Thanks