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Find the RDS Licensing servers in your domain

 
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  • Aug 21, 2015

During good old Windows 2003 times, the Terminal Licensing Servers were published in the Active Directory using the Sites object and the entry TS-Enterprise-License-Server as explained here.

Under WIndows 2008R2, the RDS Licensing role service registers a service connection point; however few documents tells you where to find this SCP in your AD: it is a CN called ‘TermServLicensing’ under the CN of the computer account. For example, if your server rdslic.mydomain.local is located in a top-level OU called ‘Servers’, the object will be called:

<pre class="">CN=TermServLicensing,CN=rdslic,OU=Servers,DC=mydomain,DC=local

To find out all registered SCP, you can issue one of the following commands:

<pre class="lang:batch decode:true" title="finding RDS Licensing servers using cmd">dsquery * -filter "(&(CN=TermServLicensing)(objectClass=serviceConnectionPoint))"

or

<pre class="lang:default decode:true " title="finding RDS Licensing servers using Powershell"># one of the following:
Get-ADObject -LDAPFilter "(&(CN=TermServLicensing)(objectClass=serviceConnectionPoint))"
Get-ADObject -Filter {objectClass -eq 'serviceConnectionPoint' -and Name -eq 'TermServLicensing'}
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