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Can you help me with my software licensing question?

Got a brand new DELL server with activated Windows 2008 OEM Standard Server. I noticed that i can have several remote desktops open at same time. Need i aquire additional terminal server license to be legal or as it works, all is legal ?

Update: In this moment i have 4 remote desktops open with 4 different users, all in group "Users", and 1 remote as admin. No remote desktop get closed.

The TS license manager shows 1 CAL Dev 2008, expires 2009-08-31.

Is this maybe a grace period ?

PD I have absolutly no problems to aquire licenses, but i don't want to pay twice ;-)

Update At this moment i need 2 users and sometimes a third (myself as admin). Seems i can live with Remote Desktop only. Will test this.

Thank you all !

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Under normal conditions, Windows Server will allow two remote Administrator logins, and one Console Administrator login - you do not need terminal server licensing for this, they are administrative connections only.

Standard users cannot connect in this state.

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In addition to Moo's correct answer, that you can use two concurrent connections for administrative purposes without extra license:

Using the /admin (for older versions of the RD client: /console) switch for one connection, you can even have three open connections at the same time.

 mstsc /admin /v:servername
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