Hello,

i need some help please.

I have some RDS-Server with OS 2008 R2 and some with 2012 R2. I want to use a single 2012 R2 Server for RDS Licensing. I have about 200x 2008 R2 TS User CALs and about 200x 2012 TS User CALs.

Will i am be able to install both Licences within my 2012 R2 RDS Licensing Server?

What happens if a user connects to a 2008 RDS-Server and after that he connects to a 2012 RDS-Server? Is he consuming two CALs (2008 and 2012) or will his 2008 CAL upgraded to a 2012 CAL and the 2008 CAL gets realeased?

Thanks.

Kind Regards

Marco

• Edited by Treeeman 14 hours 55 minutes ago

Hi Marco,

If you have CAL for same user then you can just use one User CAL per User and that user with Server 2012\R2 User CAL can get access to lower version of server also (such as server 2008 R2, 2008,etc). But if user has server 2008 R2 User CAL then we cant get access to server 2012\R2. So seems you only need to keep the higher version User CAL in your environment to get access. 

For detail you can get information as below.
RDS and TS CAL Interoperability Matrix
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14988.rds-and-ts-cal-interoperability-matrix.aspx

Hope it helps!

Thanks.