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  Quick TipsLooking for some quick guidance? We may have the information you're looking for right here... If not, please contact us and ask, we'd be glad to help 19/01/2006 Terminal Server Licensing for the InternetHow do you enable external users to connect to your Terminal Services environment? A challenge to using per-user and per-device CALs is the fact that they have to be assigned to a specific user account or a specific client device. While adequate for employees of the company that bought the license, what happens if a company wants to extend its Terminal Server environment to business partners where the names of users and client devices wouldn’t be known? What happens if a company wants to extend an application via a Terminal Server to the Internet? Technically following the Microsoft terms, you would need to buy a license for each unique user or computer that connected to your server. Clearly this is not feasible. To address this challenge, Microsoft introduced the External Connector License (ECL), designed to be used when systems are extended to external parties, including business partners and the public. ECLs are available for all new Microsoft products (except products that are licensed on a per-processor basis since per-processor licenses already account for unlimited users and client devices). In Terminal Server 2003 environments, ECLs provide a simple way to buy “concurrent” user licenses for those who need to connect to your server. If you wanted to open up a server to trading partners, you would buy a Terminal Server ECL. At this point you might be wondering why you can’t just buy ECLs and forget all this per-user and per-device garbage. Microsoft has strict rules governing the use of ECLs, and users of the TS ECLs cannot be employees of the organization that bought the license. You can also find in our White Paper section an excellent article by Brian Madden and Ron Oglesby that provides a complete explanation of this and many other TS licensing issues more ->
11/08/2005 Installing Citrix ICA ClientWant to connect to your Citrix Server but dont know how to get started? This document will help get you going. more ->
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