Does the XP Tablet PC Edition have a valid TCAL for Terminal Service Licensing running on a 2000 Server? New XP Tablet stopped working after 60 days, seems to be a temporary TCAL expiration. Any ideas would be helpful

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:16:07 -0800, "Tonyp"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Does the XP Tablet PC Edition have a valid TCAL for Terminal Service Licensing running on a 2000 Server? New XP Tablet stopped working after 60 days, seems to be a temporary TCAL expiration. Any ideas would be helpful

Licensing for terminal server would be something totally separate from
the licensing for tablet PC, but i'm not sure what you're really
asking. Did your ability to TS into a windows 2000 server stop
working, or did the tablet itself stop working? If the tablet no
longer works, then it seems more likely that it was never activated,
though I don't recall off hand what the "grace" period was for
activating Windows XP.

Give a few more details, and someone will be able to give you more
concrete answers.

John

Thanks, that was my question. I will look deeper into why.

Tony

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 21:36:06 -0800, "harve" <harve@crimeslawyer.com>
wrote:

>His question is legitimate, and actually points out some interesting things about MS marketing. TCALs normally have to be purchased separately (at an outrageously high price)to allow your PC, or unix client, or thin client, or any kind of oddball client from some other weird OS to log onto Windows 2000 Server. However, to boost Window XP sales, they originally included a builtin TCAL free of charge into each XP Professional OS sold. You know, as a freebe. Then interesting thing is that they stopped that for Win 2003 Server, and now all have to pay the MS $ machine for the new 2003 server. But the user's question was for the Win 2000 Server ! and XP Pro still has the built in for that OS.

I knew about the RDP on XP, but had never heard anything about it
"officially" having a built in license for legal connection to a
terminal server. Thanks for the info!

John