Windows 2008 R2 remote desktop authorization configuration graphic tutorial

1. Remote Desktop Licensing

Remote Desktop Licensing (RD Licensing), formerly known as Terminal Services Licensing (TS Licensing), is capable of managing each device or user with a Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) The Remote Desktop Services Client Access License (RDS CAL) required for the server connection. Use RD Licensing to install, issue, and track RDS CALs on Remote Desktop Licensing servers.

When a client (user or device) connects to an RD Session Host server, the RD Session Host server determines if an RDS CAL is required. The RD Session Host server then requests an RDS CAL from the remote desktop authorization server on behalf of the client attempting to connect to the RD Session Host server. If there is a suitable RDS CAL in the license server, the RDS CAL is issued to the client and the client will be able to connect to the RD Session Host server.

Although no license server is required during the grace period, after the grace period ends, the client must be issued a valid RDS CAL by the license server before the client can log in to the RD Session Host server. .

To use Remote Desktop Services, you must deploy at least one license server in your environment. For small deployments, you can install both the RD Session Host role service and the RD Licensing role service on the same computer. For larger deployments, it is recommended to install the RD Licensing role service on a different machine than the RD Session Host role service.

The RD Session Host server can accept connections from clients only if RD authorization is properly configured. To give you enough time to deploy a license server, Remote Desktop Services provides an authorization grace period for the RD Session Host server, during which no license server is required. During this grace period, the RD Session Host server can accept connections from unauthorized clients without having to contact the license server. The start time of the grace period is based on the time the RD Session Host server accepts the client. The grace period ends as soon as any of the following occurs:

The license server issues a permanent RDS CAL to clients connected to the RD Session Host server.

The length of the grace period depends on the operating system running on the RD Session Host server. The grace period is as follows:

Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003: grace period 120 days; Windows 2000 grace period 90 days

By default, on the RD Session Host server After logging in as a local administrator, a message appears in the lower right corner of the desktop indicating the number of days before the authorization grace period for the RD Session Host server expires.

Before the end of the RD Licensing grace period, the appropriate number of RDS CALs must be purchased and installed for each device or user that needs to connect to the RD Session Host server. In addition, you must verify that the Remote Desktop Licensing mode specified on the RD Session Host server matches the RDS CAL type provided on the license server. The Remote Desktop Licensing mode determines the type of RDS CAL that the RD Session Host server requests from the client connecting to the RD Session Host server to the license server.

Second, install remote desktop authorization

Select the discovery scope of the license server configuration:

Third, activate the authorization server

Open the RD authorization in the management tool Manager. If the server is not activated, the following figure

Activate the server

Install the license

After the installation is successful, as shown below

III. Authorize the RD Session Host < Br>

Open the RD Session Host configuration in the management tool. Before the authorization is done, as shown below

Double-click the remote desktop authorization mode to authorize:]

The result after authorization.